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Merl Merl

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Merl Merl

Sep 21

Treating an AI Anime Character Generator Like a Function With Default Arguments

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

4 min read

Merl Merl

Sep 16

I Ran a Five-Step Image Pipeline Entirely on a Phone

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

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Sep 13

Free tier, real workflow: what I learned testing an anime image generator on one character

#ai #machinelearning #tooling #productivity

5 min read

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Sep 10

An Anime Image Model Is a Flaky Dependency, So I Asserted on Every Property Twice

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

4 min read

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Sep 9

Chaining Image Generations Is a Pipeline Bug: Measuring Drift Across Four Rendering Stages

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

4 min read

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Sep 8

29 Words on One Locked Seed, and What They Cost the Picture Underneath

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

5 min read

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Sep 1

One Reference Image, Eight Character Sheet Runs, and What the Model Made Up

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

5 min read

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Aug 31

Adding an Instruction Moved the Bug Instead of Fixing It

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

5 min read

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Aug 26

Moving a Value Is Two Operations, and One of Them Is a Delete

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

5 min read

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Aug 24

Measuring the Blast Radius of an AI Image Edit

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

4 min read

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Aug 21

I ran 17 controlled generations to find out where AI manga panels break

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

5 min read

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Aug 18

The Reference Carried the Count, the Prompt Carried the Layout

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

4 min read

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Aug 15

An AI Image Edit Is a Full Re-Render, and Nine Runs Showed Me What That Costs

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

5 min read

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Aug 13

The Prompt Was Fine. The Input Had Already Consumed the Instruction.

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

4 min read

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Aug 11

I Built an Anime Art Pipeline on a Node Canvas and Watched Every Handoff

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

3 min read

Merl Merl

Aug 5

The Version Matrix Problem in AI Character Art

#ai #beginners #productivity #design

3 min read

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Aug 4

The Most Downloaded Model Was the Wrong Dependency

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #beginners

4 min read

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Aug 1

Symmetry Is the Default Your Character Spec Has to Survive

#ai #machinelearning #testing #beginners

5 min read

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Jul 28

I Deleted the Seed and My Character Still Reproduced Five Times

#ai #machinelearning #experiment #learning

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Jul 27

I ran the same character spec through two AI art platforms. Only one gave me reproducible output.

#showdev #ai #machinelearning #productivity

5 min read

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Jul 26

I Built One Anime Character on SeaArt and PixAI, and the Workflow Gap Was the Real Result

#ai #stablediffusion #anime #beginners

3 min read

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Jul 23

One Character, a Whole Summer: Reusing Anime Prompts Like Function Calls

#ai #anime #prompts #tutorial

3 min read

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Jul 22

You Don't Need to Build Stable Diffusion to Make Anime Art

#ai #stablediffusion #beginners #machinelearning

3 min read

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Jul 20

The Model Filled In a Null and I Almost Shipped It

#ai #testing #machinelearning #tooling

5 min read

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Jul 14

Debugging a LoRA That Won't Render

#aiart #animation #ai #pixai

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