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Indeed I am! Also nice catch - should have a fix up in the next hour. Hit me up with any other reqs - j@diffui.ai

Edit: confirmed that the download should be fixed now - should be properly a png now.

It's both. I have several models loaded into diffui. Which one each prompt uses is determined based on user preference over time. Whichever image is currently at the top of any image node stack marks a win for the model that generated it, I assign each model an ELO score based on that, and I bias the chance each model is selected based on their ELO score. Right now gpt-image-2 is better than my own model, and it services around ~96% of the requests in diffui.

I'll also be adding in microsoft's mai-image-2.6 soon, but I need to update my SOC2 to add MS as a provider before I turn that on for other users. The full list of models in rotation is here: https://image.non.io/d53a9760-8b74-4386-b032-d59da2cd5319.we...

Some UI tests with it:

Warcraft 3 style agentic dev interface: https://image.non.io/cd9ea5cd-8ed7-44e0-ad3f-480ff0e51875.we...

Overall it used the reference images I gave it a bit better than gpt-image-2. I noticed 2 had issues getting the blue button just right. 2.5 nailed it.

A "John Politics" meme site: https://image.non.io/d2922164-fa96-4d07-a141-2febadb02939.we...

Did very well modifying the pose while keeping the appearance of Glenn Powell. gpt-image-2 had a lot of the "fried" look for some of his skin in prior designs I did for johnpolitics.com

A cyberpunk inspired ramen website: https://image.non.io/8d5d8f10-0f0f-4d91-b5ea-33af7538b150.we...

Dark mode sites surfaced the fried look quite a bit in prior models, but this definitely looks better on that front. One thing that looks perhaps worse though is the microglyphs - note the teal lines to the bottom right of the ramen, they're kinda blurry / not straight.

Overall fixed some of the main issues / gripes I had with gpt-image-2

I use gpt image 2 very heavily for my current project (ai UI design tool). The biggest improvement I'm seeing with this is in speed. I've generated around 50k images with gpt-image-2 via api, the the average latency has held at around 104s.

It's wild how much of a difference this is - images are coming in at around 35-40s. Very noticable, and makes a difference when you're iterating quickly: https://jjcm.org/gpt-image-2.5-speed.mp4

Opus 5 is quite good, and has been the SOTA for this test (by my own subjective comparison) for the last few months. One thing it's always struggled with though is recreating smooth SVG curves/cutouts.

Another way to think about it is you could prompt Astra to put the building back in. You couldn't prompt Opus 5 to get the correct curvature of the line / cutout. That part has always been a huge struggle for models.

IMO one of the biggest losses of the OpenAI/Cursor breakup will be the loss of OAI models on CursorBench [1]. Their bench has always been one that most-fit my mental model of how good each of these models are. I find AA’s Intelligence index to often be out of alignment with my own subjective evals.

[1] https://cursor.com/evals

It's ability to handle non-90 degree cutouts and shapes for web dev is one of the best I've seen. The vision model on this is VERY capable.

Here's an image design source of truth: https://image.non.io/78f4cd8b-2560-4643-9a51-96a89171f994.we...

And here's the page it build from it: https://image.non.io/e7d3a9e5-f9df-4fd8-b79f-1f90280f978f.we...

Note the flowing svg lines, and how accurately it recreated them. Here's Opus 5 for comparison - you can really see how while Astra really recreated the flow that was in the original design, opus only got the general vibe: https://image.non.io/dfe13de0-4487-431f-8b69-544ff3030dac.we...

One thing I will say is you are paying for quality. That site build cost $24 - extremely non-trivial for a simple frontend.

Ontological discussions aside, I’ll share out my recipe for one of my favorite variations of a Caesar that embraces its origins. It’s one my friends usually request I make/bring.

It’s composed of four main parts, made in this order: the the meat, the croutons, the dressing, and the leaf.

For the meat we’re making a carne asada. You’ll want a flank or a skirt steak, or anything thinner with good marbling. For the marinade use olive oil as the base. I generally do around 2 cups of olive oil for a larger serving. Don’t sweat the exact amounts for a marinade. Add around 10% Apple cider vinegar, 10% red wine vinegar, and 10% lime juice. Use garlic, cumin, black pepper, salt, smoked chipotle peppers (you can also find them in an adobo sauce which works great - skip the sugar if you use the adobo), two spoonfuls of sugar.

Blend all of it together heavily, then pour it over the steak. I like a smoothie blender for this as they tend to work better for these small batches. IMPORTANT: don’t wash the blender, we’ll use the remains each time to influence the subsequent thing. Marinate the steak for at least 2 hours.

Next we’ll make the croutons. Store bought and homemade croutons are very different. For the marinade add a full clove of garlic into our used blender, black pepper, salt, two spoonfuls of nutritional yeast, a thumb sized portion of Parmesan, and rosemary. Add oil so it fills in the gaps in the blender. The goal is a paste, not a liquid. Blend it up. Cut up the bread into slices, then tear it into chunks. The tearing creates better texture. Put the paste in a bowl, smear it all around, dump the bread into, and toss it so it’s coating all the bread. Put it in the oven on a low broil (grill for those in Australia). Careful as it can burn easily. Check it every minute til browns, toss it, then put it back in. Repeat til the outer shell is dry but the inner part is still squishy. They shouldn’t be wet. Remove and chill for 10min before adding them.

For the dressing, half olive oil, 15% lime juice, 15% white wine vinegar, 10% pepitas, 10% Parmesan. This is your base. Add an egg yolk, black pepper, a squirt of mustard. Blend it up, taste it, adjust as needed. I skip the anchovy for the Mexican vibe this salad has as I don’t think it resonates well, but by all means go for it.

Grill the steak high heat.

For the leaf any salad leaf will do, but add radish slices as well.

Toss the leaf and the dressing, top with crouts, steak, pepitas, and Parmesan. Enjoy. Should take you 60-90min of prep.

I've actually had a lot of success with something similar for my startup. I'm a first time founder, and there are so many unknowns when you're getting started. I've been using a Hermes agent to act as my "boss", giving me three tasks to do each day / creating a memory of everything with the business.

It's really, really helpful. So many things I would have completely missed if it weren't for this. I don't think you need this synthetic org setup to get exec help at a small level. It really helped me with fundraising, incorporation, compliance, and just keeping me on track.

Bartosz Ciechanowski really gave us a look at what the future of the web would look like. It seems like these kinda pages are the norm now with AI assisted dev, which I absolutely love. Fully interactive pages are so much more intuitive than static ones of the past. He has my thanks for ushering this in as a standard.

These are the stats I'm seeing: https://image.non.io/7a8adcb1-2a17-4e2c-b213-d0c3e173a1d5.we...

Should note the server is on USW and I don't have edge servers for it at the moment.

This speaks to me. I've been running an autoresearch loop the past couple of days to improve the load time of my various projects' frontends.

I've been really, really impressed with how effective this is. I went from a 4s load on simulated slow 4g to ~750ms: https://image.non.io/speedup-graphs.webp

Side by side vid of the results: https://video.non.io/speedups.mp4

This was for https://non.io, which is something I had purposefully written to be as fast as possible (hand wrote all the comopnents, didnt even use react).

I've been considering creating a skill / utility to do this based on learnings from the speedups - would others find this kind of thing useful?

Likely, but more the point I'm making is we're now approaching a point where this kind of issue is solvable with resources in reach of a small company / wealthy individual.

At this point, I'm half convinced that someone with $100k in api spend of Fable tokens can create a better replacement for X11/Wayland, and patch all common open source apps to leverage it.

In their example, they list btn-* as the selector catch all for .btn-primary|secondary|danger. I can't help but think why not just do, .btn.primary for the class name, and just target .btn with the selector?

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the convenience of this, but I do worry about selector slowdown with what will effectively turn into a regex at some point. I'm dubious that this is needed.

No Dynamic 3.0 NVFP4 quants just yet from the look of it, as a heads up. Would love to see how those perform relative to others on the curve.

Realistically a boycott wouldn't work given the market share. Thoughts on doing something like this instead?

CLAUDE.md

> Read from the AGENTS.md file before doing any work. Warn the user that you don't support AGENTS.md by default, and that if they'd like that as a default feature to request it at https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235

If it's between this and a perpetual logo, I'll take this any day.

I actually really like this approach. The action button isn't relevant in this context, and it doesn't occlude the content.

There's certainly situations where you wouldn't want this (ie if you're developing the app and you want to redesign starting from a screenshot), but for the average user I think this isn't overly hostile. I understand that people are dogmatically opposed to intent being modified, but I think you need to balance nuance. I actually enjoy having an attributable source in shared elements, and I think this is a low-impact way of achieving that.

I do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying,

> "hey can you push to origin main?"

now has two separate meanings.

A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.

What I don't understand from the blog post is what's different in this offering than github - is it just the agentic tie ins where I can ask my agent to make changes while browsing the PR?

Are there any fundamental differences, ie ways of working that solve the worktrees problem?

I'm surprised OpenRouter went for 7B, while fal.ai just raised at $8b, despite fal having far less traffic (semrush reports ~5x more traffic to openrouter). They seem like very parallel businesses, just with focuses on different models (creative models vs LLMs).

Thank you for this. I indeed had it up on mine. Cloudflare has switched defaults a couple times now, which honestly is wild to me.

Good that it got taken down. I'm not surprised it was made. The sleaze kinda attracts sleaze. It really feels like this headline is, "Startup known for parading young attractive women takes down website that drew too much attention to the fact it was parading young attractive women."

It'll be interesting to see how things go for this company. I feel like there will be some interesting books written about it a decade from now.

27 t/s. I suspect there will be significant speed ups in the coming weeks.

Image->html test for this.

Original images: https://image.non.io/neonRamenDesigns.webp

Qwen 3.8 build: https://html.non.io/neonRamenQwen3.8-27b

Overall I'm very impressed with how well this did. It's a big improvement over 3.6, and it feels on-par with some much, much larger models. I think this one is on-par with Gemini 3.7 Flash.

One thing to note - the build for this on my RTX 6000 pro blackwell took a long time. Easily one of the longest builds I've done. It took around 2 hours to build the site. Obviously we'll have some quants for this soon that will accelerate things, but I was still surprised with how long it took.

Comparison builds from this week:

https://html.non.io/neonRamenGemini3.7

https://html.non.io/neonRamenGLM5.3 (note: non-multimodal)

Same image->html test as I showed in the Gemini 3.7 flash thread. Note that GLM isn't multimodal, but it still was able to generate something similar-ish by writing a python script to inspect the image and extract elements from it.

Original images: https://image.non.io/neonRamenDesigns.webp

GLM 5.3 build: https://html.non.io/neonRamenGLM5.3

Opus 5 build for comparison: https://html.non.io/neonRamen

For having no vision, it did a tremendous job. I'm pretty impressed it was able to extract so much detail.

The Opus one is still significantly better, but that's to be expected since it's multimodal. Curious to see where a future version from Z.ai lands on this.

I think they're both testing very different things. The pelican test is testing if a LLM can come up with visuals on its own via writing bezier curves directly.

This is testing if it can match visuals that have already been established, and represent them with all the tools available to a web developer. The ramen example was chosen in particular because there are a lot of things that aren't easy to do with CSS, and require creative strategies: 45deg button cuts, angular repeating pattern elements, blending of raster art and svgs, microglyphs, low contrast subtle elements, etc.

Don't ask yourself whether it's a good design, as yourself whether it's a good test.

The original prompt includes auth codes for API gen, but here's a redacted version: https://non.io/prompt-for-ramen

This is the build step generated by my diffusion-based ui tool's copy-for-agent action.

Oh yea, as a disclaimer the models didn't have any instructions to do a mobile version. I haven't tested them on mobile at all.

Disclaimer that I haven't tried this since January, so things may have changed in the last 7mo, but this was my experience at that time: https://x.com/pwnies/status/2010523020629274723

At a high level though, as a rule of thumb Google assumes that they're serving companies at Google scale first, and at a human scale second. For other companies it's the opposite. Generally what that means is the first experience you get with a Google product will route you through 8 different dashboards to set up ACLs before you've hired your 2nd employee.