alt Hacker NewsIt's crazy to think there was a fleeting sliver of time during which Midjourney felt like the pinnacle of image generation.
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rc1 • yesterday at 8:28 PM
Isn’t it still? Antidotally, I work with lots of creators who still prefer it because of its subjective qualities.
The pace of commoditization in image generation is wild. Every 3-4 months the SOTA shifts, and last quarter's breakthrough becomes a commodity API.
What's interesting is that the bottleneck is no longer the model — it's the person directing it. Knowing what to ask for and recognizing when the output is good enough matters more than which model you use. Same pattern we're seeing in code generation.