[MattSayar]

Simon Willison's annotated presentations are the GOAT: slides followed by the transcript of your talk for each slide

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/6/annotated-presentations...

[skeeter2020]

I wish Maciej gave more talks, they are always very well prepared and entertaining:

https://idlewords.com/talks/

[dan-robertson]

Yeah, I think this sort of thing is a much better format than a slide deck, even if there’s a load of speaker notes you could read.

[kingkongjaffa]

As much as Simon’s blog is generally good to stay up to date on LLM’s this is not a good way to do a presentation at all.

We shouldn’t conflate expertise from one field with ability in another.

[simonw]

I think you may have misunderstood what an "annotated presentation" is.

It's not a new way of giving presentations. It's a way of publishing your presentations after you have given them where you turn the slides into a longer form written piece.

So it can't be "not a good way to do a presentation at all", because I give presentations exactly the same as everyone else does! Slides with images and a few words.

What's different is that I take the time to write them up properly afterwards.

Here's my most recent example - in this case it wasn't a whole presentation, just the slide portion from a three hour workshop: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/15/building-on-llms/#llm-...

Bunch more examples here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotated-talks/