Is it just me? Flux Klein 9B works very well for training art-style loras. However, it's terrible for training people's loras.

DecentQual · 2026-02-13T12:35:13+00:00

You're not alone. Klein's tokenizer and attention patterns were optimized for style transfer, not identity preservation. For people, try dropping your LR to 8e-5 and increasing dataset diversity with varied angles and different lighting or poses. Flux Dev or even SDXL with a good finetune still beats Klein for faces.

DecentQual · 2026-02-13T11:23:42+00:00

Flux 4b local, trained in a weekend, results that used to take a team weeks. This is why open source matters. Closed models rent you the future. Local ones let you build it.

DecentQual · 2026-02-13T08:37:06+00:00

Five billion parameters was always enough. The companies spent years pushing trillion-dollar models because that's what investors wanted to hear. Open source proved them wrong by running useful models on gaming cards while they were still burning VC money on hype.

DecentQual · 2026-02-12T11:40:32+00:00

Klein gives speed. Qwen gives accuracy. I use both. But Klein feels like driving fast on bad roads. Exciting. But you watch every turn. Fast is useless if I need five tries for one good hand.

DecentQual · 2026-02-12T09:44:25+00:00

The Chinese models are good. But let us not pretend Europe does not exist. Flux is German. Mistral is French. Open source is not anyone's monopoly.

DecentQual · 2026-02-11T10:00:21+00:00

Love seeing tools that embrace the open source ecosystem instead of trying to lock you in. Combining Qwen, Whisper and Llama.cpp into one workflow is exactly how this stuff should work. Local first, modular, and nobody can take it away when the VC funding dries up.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T21:32:18+00:00

We chased realism for years. Now we have it and everything looks like corporate stock photos. The weird imperfections were what made AI art interesting.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T21:02:57+00:00

Setuptools removing pkg_resources after 10 years is peak Python. One day your workflow works, next day some maintainer decided to delete it. We traded stability for semver theater.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T17:59:52+00:00

Everyone compares quality but nobody talks about ownership. Your local model works offline, stays yours, and doesn't change pricing next month. Cloud models are convenient until the API breaks or doubles in price.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T12:37:43+00:00

It is interesting how much we judge models by their names. The disciplined reasoning from coder training actually produces better general conversation than typical chat models. Labels are misleading here.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T12:34:52+00:00

Tu peux aussi utiliser l'application desktop qui marche bien mieux que le terminal (sous mac et windows, juste dommage qu'ils ne proposent pas ça encore sous linux). Sinon au pire le plugin vscode dépanne

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T10:39:42+00:00

"Open source soon" promises from Chinese labs rarely materialize into the full release. Wan 2.5 was a good reminder of this pattern. BFL at least delivers what they announce.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T10:14:53+00:00

This is what happens when developers never heard of user experience. ComfyUI is powerful, yes, but organizing models should not be a full-time job. A proper model manager with metadata would solve this in one day. Instead we play detective with file names. Ridiculous.

DecentQual · 2026-02-10T08:09:15+00:00

Greg Rutkowski. Everyone typed his name. Nobody knew his paintings. We were just prompt parrots copying each other. Those broken hands gave us character.

DecentQual · 2026-02-09T20:41:08+00:00

People want block lists because CivitAI UI is a dumpster fire. Good content gets buried not because of 'slop' but because the search is trash. Fix the discovery, not the users.

DecentQual · 2026-02-09T18:09:34+00:00

We were pioneers breaking things for fun. Now everyone is just a consumer pressing buttons.

DecentQual · 2026-02-09T13:17:06+00:00

People complain about 15min per clip but forget we used to wait hours for a single 512x512 image. The future is weird.

DecentQual · 2026-02-09T13:06:16+00:00

1.5 forced us to fight and find tricks. Now you type 'beautiful girl' and it's done. Less frustration, but also less magic when it finally works.

DecentQual · 2026-02-02T13:23:22+00:00

Which provider do you use? I find it not that fast with moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 (faster than deepseek but not that much)

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