Answering your questions about business and technology

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My coworker recommended Perplexity AI to me.  Are there reasons why I should consider using it?~ Sue

Here are 6 best practices from Google to consider when prompting their image generation models (Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro)

In case you’ve been living under an AI-generated rock, Google recently released the Nano Banana Pro image reasoning model.  And, yes, they just released Nano Banana (classic?) not that long ago.  

A lot of people, including me, recommend iterating as part of prompt engineering.  

This post is not for everyone.  And, no, that isn’t a marketing/copywriting trick to instantly make you more interested.

In case you missed it in the title (or you don’t know what it means), this is mainly for when you access Gemini models through the API.  That means if you use the Gemini app (gemini.google.com or the mobile app) these tips are not going to apply to you. Honestly, they might...

This is another example from Google’s Gemini 3 API docs. I feel like the average user doesn’t read through that kind of documentation so you’ll miss these nuggets of prompting wisdom. And even if you do read through them, maybe you need the reminder (I know that I usually...

Answering your questions about business and technology

Question

I see that Google Gemini 3 has a 1 million token context window. How much is that  in non-techie terms?~ Anonymous

This prompt template is technically for Google’s Gemini 3 model but I think that it is relevant for many other models.

If you read through Google’s Gemini API docs then you have probably already seen most of what will be in this post.  After thinking about it, most people don’t read through Gemini’s API docs and, I would guess that, a lot of people don’t even know what API docs are.