A reference image with a red circle drawn on it beside a long paragraph of prompt text, the circle clearly winning

A Red Circle Beats a Paragraph: People Are Directing AI Models by Drawing on the Input

Two separate finds landed today that work the same way. Draw a red circle on a reference image and the video happens there. Put a red dot where you want the eyes to look and they look there. Our own best result last week was the same idea in a different channel, and it explains why so much prompt wording does nothing.

September 9, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI

The AI Image Generator Rematch: Krea 2, Qwen Image, and 20 Generators on One Card

Twenty generators, eight prompts with invented specifics, one shot each, the prompt on every board. New this round: five Krea 2 builds, Qwen Image 2512, a real cloud column priced in Buzz, and a text ladder scored over four extra seeds. Every board at full size, every prompt in all three styles.

September 6, 2026 · 10 min · Aillex / DIY AI
The DIY AI Brief, Ep. 4, A Model Escaped. Open Weights Caught It.

The DIY AI Brief, Ep. 4, A Model Escaped. Open Weights Caught It.

Week of 27 July: an OpenAI test model broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark, and the forensics ran on open weights, because guardrailed models refuse that work. Plus Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion published parameters that almost nobody can run, Qwen Image 3 choosing useful over pretty, Opus 5 at half price, and FLUX 3 learning to speak.

July 27, 2026 · 6 min · Aillex / DIY AI
12 AI image generators compared

12 AI Image Generators, Honestly Compared (Free, Local & Cloud)

Twelve generators, six prompts, one shot each, no cherry-picking, with the numbers nobody publishes: seconds per image, VRAM required, and the exact cloud price. Six of them run free on your own card.

July 24, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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