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Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

Midjourney AI

I have started treating claude like a creative director instead of an assistant and the quality of my work jumped overnight

I think most people are using claude wrong for creative work and I was too until about a month ago when I accidentally stumbled into a completely different way of interacting with it the way I was using it before "claude write me a caption for this post" or "claude give me 5 ideas for a video about X" basically treating it like a vending machine where I put in a request and get back a finished thing. the results were always fine, technically correct nd clearly AI generated in that way where everything is competent but nothing has a pulse. the shift happened when I was working on a video project and I was stuck on the visual direction, I had raw footage that looked boring and I couldn't figure out what was missing, instead of asking claude to solve the problem I started describing the footage to it and asking it questions like what emotion should someone feel when they watch this and what's the visual language of that emotion . what it did was ask me questions back that forced me to think about my own creative intent more precisely than I'd been thinking about it, things like "you said you want it to feel nostalgic but nostalgic for what specifically, childhood or a relationship or a version of yourself, because those require different visual approaches". that one question completely changed the direction of the project, I realized I was going for a vague instead of a specific emotional target and that's why the footage felt flat. what i did was bring raw footage and a rough idea to claude and we have a conversation about what the piece should actually be before I touch any tools, then I take those creative decisions to midjourney for concept art or magic hour for style tests or premiere for the edit, the tools haven't changed but the thinking that goes into how I use them has completely changed because claude helps me interrogate my own creative instincts before I start executing the difference in my output is noticeable enough that a client last week said something changed in my work recently and I almost told them it's because I've been having creative direction conversations with an AI before every project but I decided to just say thanks lol. And theres no lesson in this i was just sharing my experience here ,hopefully i find more ways to improve myself through it anyone else shifted from using claude as an executor to using it as a creative collaborator and noticed a similar jump in quality submitted by /u/DangerousFlower8634 [link] [comments]

is AI making us better thinkers or just faster workers

I've been using claude daily for about 8 months now and something has been nagging at me that I want to talk about. when I first started using it I was genuinely thinking more, I'd use claude to challenge my assumptions and explore angles I hadn't considered and stress test ideas before committing to them, it felt like having a thinking partner that made my actual reasoning sharper. lately though I've noticed a shift in myself that I don't love, I've started going to claude brfore even I think instead of after, like I'll get a new project at work and instead of sitting with it for a while and forming my own perspective first I'll immediately open claude and say "here's the situation what should I consider" and whatever it gives me becomes the starting framework I work within. The difference is subtle but it matters, in the first version I'm using AI to refine thinking I've already done, in the second version I'm outsourcing the initial thinking entirely and just editing what comes back and those are very different cognitive processes even though the output might look similar. I noticed it most clearly last week when I was doing research for a client project, I had claude pull together an analysis and I was about to send it and then I stopped and asked myself do I actually agree with this or am I just sending it because it sounds smart and I didn't have to think hard to produce it and I genuinely couldn't tell which one it was and that scared me a little. I think there's a version of using claude that makes you sharper and a version that makes you lazier and the line between them is just whether you're thinking first and using AI to go further or skipping the thinking entirely because the AI can produce something passable without it. I do a lot of creative work too, video stuff for clients where I use midjourney for concepts and kling, magic hour and runway for motion references, and I see the same pattern there, when I have a clear creative vision and use the tools to execute it faster the work is great, when I open the tools with no vision and just see what comes out the work is mediocre even though it looks polished. curious if anyone else has caught themselves making this shift and whether you've found a way to stay on the "better thinker" side instead of sliding into the "faster worker" side because I think it's one of the most important questions about how we use these tools and nobody's really talking about it submitted by /u/Major_Cable_8079 [link] [comments]

I'm a screen printer with no coding background. I used Claude to build and ship a complete mobile game in 14 days.

Just joined this community, but I wanted to share something concrete rather than just another "Claude is amazing" post. Background: I own a screen printing shop and a small RC racing venue in Somerset, Wisconsin. Chemistry degree. Zero formal programming training. I've been using Claude as a collaborator across my businesses for about 18 months — everything from automating print workflows to PLC programming. I've had a game idea stuck in my head for over 10 years. I even built a 28-foot physical miniature set with Arduino-rigged RC cars trying to make it as a film project. Never had the skills to build the real thing. Two weeks ago I decided to just go for it with Claude. The result is OUTLAWED 2089, a daily strategy racing game set in a fictional Wisconsin town where automation has made life too easy and manual driving has been outlawed. A small group races at night to feel something real. It's live now, free, browser-based. Here's the stack we built together in 14 days: - React/TypeScript/Vite frontend - Zustand state management - Firebase auth + Firestore - Cloud Functions for automated midnight race resolution - Full physics engine - 10 cars with a 4-axis trait balancing system - 13 original characters with backstories - 3 race tracks - 5-season narrative arc with a World Bible - Daily content engine that generates years of content autonomously - Custom art pipeline: Midjourney → Meshy 3D → Blender Cycles - Deployed on Vercel What I learned about working with Claude on a project this size: **Architecture decisions were the biggest value.** I didn't know what Zustand was before this project. Claude didn't just suggest it — it explained why it was the right choice for my specific use case vs Redux or Context API, and that reasoning helped me make better decisions downstream. **Debugging was genuinely collaborative.** I'd paste an error, but instead of just fixing it, Claude would explain what went wrong and why, so by week two I was catching similar issues on my own before they happened. **The World Bible approach was a game-changer for content.** We built a detailed document covering the entire game universe — characters, lore, factions, timeline. Then we built a prompt system on top of it that can generate daily in-game events, storylines, and race outcomes that stay consistent with the world. It can run on autopilot for years. **Art direction was underrated.** Claude helped me develop the entire visual style (we call it "Midwest Industrial Noir") and the art pipeline workflow. The MJ → Meshy → Blender pipeline was something we figured out together through trial and error. **What Claude couldn't do:** It couldn't make taste decisions for me. The 10-year vision, the tone, knowing when something felt right or wrong — that was all human. Claude is the best collaborator I've ever had, but it's not a replacement for having a clear vision of what you're building. 10 years of carrying an idea. 14 days of building it. Happy to answer any questions about the process, the stack, or specific challenges. The game is at outlawed2089.com if anyone wants to check it out. submitted by /u/New-Mud442 [link] [comments]

Midjourney engineer debuts new vibe coded, open source standard Pretext to revolutionize web design

For three decades, the web has existed in a state of architectural denial. It is a platform originally conceived to share static physics papers, yet it is now tasked with rendering the most complex, interactive, and generative interfaces humanity has ever conceived. At the heart of this tension lies a single, invisible, and prohibitively expensive operation known as "layout reflow." Whenever a developer needs to know the height of a paragraph or the position of a line to build a modern interface, they must ask the browser’s Document Object Model (DOM), the standard by which developers can create and modify webpages. In response, the browser often has to recalculate the geometry of the entire page — a process akin to a city being forced to redraw its entire map every time a resident opens their front door. Last Friday, March 27, 2026, Cheng Lou — a prominent software engineer whose work on React, ReScript, and Midjourney has defined much of the modern frontend landscape — announced on the social network X that he had "crawled through depths of hell" to release an open source (MIT License) solution: Pretext, which he coded using AI vibe coding tools and models like OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude. It is a 15KB, zero-dependency TypeScript library that allows for multiline text measurement and layout entirely in "userland," bypassing the DOM and its performance bottlenecks. Without getting too technical, in short, Lou's Pretext turns text blocks on the web into fully dynamic, interactive and responsive spaces, able to adapt and smoothly move around any other object on a webpage, preserving letter order and spaces between words and lines, even when a user clicks and drags other objects to intersect with the text, or resizes their browser window dramatically. Ironically, it's difficult with mere text alone to convey how significant Lou's latest release is for the entire web going forward. Fortunately, other third-party developers whipped up quick demos with Pretext

New to Claude

Hello. I am new to Claude and coding in general. I have done PLC / SCADA programming and used VBA in the past. But never really done anything computer. Programming wise. I am currently tinkering around with a VPS with 8 Cores, 24GB ram, 200GB NVMe storage and 1.5GBS bandwidth. I set this up mainly to experiment with n8n and move some Wordpress micro sites from private hosting accounts to it. I want to learn coding without necessarily AI doing all for me but being there to help me when I am stuck, at least till I understand what I am doing. Probably start with PHP first. I have the following AI tools available to me currently that I have subscribed to. Google AI Pro (Annual Plan) Perplexity Pro (Annual Plan) ChatGPT+ Expiring end of month. SuperGrok (The version that comes with blue check mark on X) For image and video only Higgsfield Creator Plan (Annual) FreePik Ultimate Plan (Annual) Adobe Firefly that comes with CreativeCloud. MidJourney (Annual) Perplexity don’t know if I will keep, but I was doing a lot of research stuff for work so was using it to help with this. Decided to let ChatGPT+ go since had access to same models in Perplexity. I know I have access to Claude also via Perplexity. But a lot of the bells and whistles seems like I will not get via the Perplexity Pro plan. Will I get enough access to do things for learning to program with just a Claude Pro account? Would you pay Month to Month or Annually? submitted by /u/Breezez100 [link] [comments]

@jacquesBroquard @laf131 256 tokens is basically 256 words which is pretty long for a hand written description of an image!

@jacquesBroquard @laf131 256 tokens is basically 256 words which is pretty long for a hand written description of an image!

@PetruskaHQ @domehouse79 @laf131 256 tokens is basically 256 words, that's pretty long! not sure it's fair to say only people who put more than 256 words into a single prompt are loyal or creative

@PetruskaHQ @domehouse79 @laf131 256 tokens is basically 256 words, that's pretty long! not sure it's fair to say only people who put more than 256 words into a single prompt are loyal or creative

@laf131 @jadenitripp Oh! 256 "Tokens" is a technical term that might be confusing people, in AI a "Token" is basically a full word, so this is like saying "the limit is 256 words" but then a word is s

@laf131 @jadenitripp Oh! 256 "Tokens" is a technical term that might be confusing people, in AI a "Token" is basically a full word, so this is like saying "the limit is 256 words" but then a word is say maybe 5 characters on avg so that would mean 1300 characters

@momadeCG Try removing things like --exp from your prompt, this may be causing issues. Thanks!

@momadeCG Try removing things like --exp from your prompt, this may be causing issues. Thanks!

@jadenitripp @laf131 Cool, that's what the system is currently doing for V8

@jadenitripp @laf131 Cool, that's what the system is currently doing for V8

@eddiboi Unfortunately it was a oversight since historically only ~0.5% of prompts coming into our system were super long and we just weren't thinking about it much

@eddiboi Unfortunately it was a oversight since historically only ~0.5% of prompts coming into our system were super long and we just weren't thinking about it much

@artlantiko @laf131 Try V8! It should do better at this

@artlantiko @laf131 Try V8! It should do better at this

@domehouse79 @laf131 Unfortunately it was a oversight since historically only ~0.5% of prompts coming into our system were super long and we just weren't thinking about it much

@domehouse79 @laf131 Unfortunately it was a oversight since historically only ~0.5% of prompts coming into our system were super long and we just weren't thinking about it much

@MysticAvila @laf131 Unfortunately it was a oversight since historically only ~0.5% of prompts coming into our system were super long and we just weren't thinking about it much

@MysticAvila @laf131 Unfortunately it was a oversight since historically only ~0.5% of prompts coming into our system were super long and we just weren't thinking about it much

@rhett @laf131 Good idea! We'll try to backpush a solution into V7 too.

@rhett @laf131 Good idea! We'll try to backpush a solution into V7 too.