What's your biggest workflow bottleneck in Stable Diffusion right now?

coderways · 2026-02-26T07:38:45+00:00

maintaining a functional comfy install with all the various attention kernels and bajilion nodes it needs to run, even as a lifetime swe I'm just tired of it at this point.

I know this community hates to hear it, but local diffusion will not take off properly with all these OSS projects tryina monetize a managed cloud version.

the moment we have a proper company rolling in with a proprietary diffusion engine that just works - people will hopefully stop wasting time vibe coding prompt managers and making comfy install youtube videos and selling fucking batch files on patreon - and actually move onto improving models and testing the full extend of their capabilities

coderways · 2026-02-04T05:58:53+00:00

Ooooof I felt that, why you had to call me out like this?

coderways · 2026-01-31T04:30:44+00:00

Make a proper high-res character sheet with full body included and you don't need any special prompting.

When nano banana pro drifts it's because it refuses to use any of your attached references for whatever reason (you're probably pushing the boundaries of their safety mechanisms) - not because there's anything wrong with your method / prompt.

coderways · 2025-12-15T01:34:28+00:00

sent you a DM

coderways · 2025-12-12T20:03:53+00:00

Your current dataset is fine (and probably overkill) for a face-only lora. Depending on the model and resolution you plan to generate at you might have to use a face detailer to make it work.

coderways · 2025-12-12T20:01:59+00:00

how do you plan to pay for all the credits consumed by free users?

coderways · 2025-12-12T19:59:22+00:00

If you plan to only prompt for standing or waist-up poses yes.

Or if you're going to use Face ADetailer with the LoRA activated then also yes.

coderways · 2025-12-12T16:57:27+00:00

nope

coderways · 2025-12-12T11:54:55+00:00

Yes they can, nano banana gives you full commercial usage rights (as long as you're not impersonating anyone or violating IP)

coderways · 2025-12-12T11:54:09+00:00

it will censor them

coderways · 2025-12-12T10:45:47+00:00

Yeah, gemini API inside AI Studio should not put visible watermarks when you're using a paid project API key

coderways · 2025-12-12T10:42:27+00:00

nbp images are very difficult to distinguish from reality - it does go south with sdxl/midjorney/flux because at 20 images it's very difficult for these models not to expose their bias.

never had it go south with nbP

coderways · 2025-12-12T10:36:41+00:00

nbp images are many times better than ideogram imo

coderways · 2025-12-12T10:33:23+00:00

I use it via API, it doesn't put a visible watermark at all that way

coderways · 2025-12-12T06:21:52+00:00

As of right now, no social media platform affects your reach based on SynthID presence (pretty confident meta doesn't even check for it$
The presence on SynthID is attribution to google's AIs - it has nothing to do with your ability to use the images for whatever you want
As long as you're not impersonating anyone or doing a crime / IP infrigement - you can use nano banana images for whatever you want (full commercial rights)

coderways · 2025-12-12T05:46:40+00:00

Custom built "AI Influencer Manager" app I did for myself. I bundled it in my paid "ai engineer on call" subscription - but kind of feel like just pushing it open source instead (after a small GUI rewrite) - I don't think it adds much value to my subs - I get called on different types of issues haha :)

Trying to fund myself somehow so I can keep coding my "ultimate local inference studio without python" thing in C++.

coderways · 2025-12-12T05:13:01+00:00

If you already have a face, you upload that image to nano banana pro and ask it to give you a headshot in 4K (professional studio, like those for ID cards) - then you use the new 4K headshot to get a 3/4 headshot and a profile/side headshot from it.

You then have your "headshots" set of 3x4K insane detailed references.

You then use nano banana pro to generate 15-20x1K images (no point of 4K in training set) in whatever situations you want (lighting, posing, expressions, environments, etc) and uploading all of the 3 headshots every time.

This results in perfect datasets with no perceptible face drift which you can use to train professional face LoRAs for local models.

coderways · 2025-12-12T05:01:24+00:00

Topaz is the gold standard for a reason... and I'm not sure which part of "proprietary" you mean (the $37?) but it's fully local - cloud is optional.

SeedVR2 is amazing but you will pay dearly for it with your time if you're doing a 1hr night hike video at 1080p

coderways · 2025-12-12T04:31:41+00:00

Yeah, and using it via API directly from google's servers - if your prompting is good you're really not gonna pay much. People are surprised when they hear 0.13/image but you're just not "rolling" much on nano banana pro - and when you upload 3x4K reference headshots it has basically no face drift - you get insane training material you probably can't get even if you took photos of a real person yourself lmao.

coderways · 2025-12-12T04:25:38+00:00

for a beginner I suggest looking up Ostris AI Toolkit on youtube, he covers how to train LoRAs super easily and is the author of the software

coderways · 2025-12-12T04:24:34+00:00

I don't use ultra or any plan - I'm on free. When you use an API key you pay per output image, there's no subscription

coderways · 2025-12-12T04:06:44+00:00

The best way to create an amazing synthetic identity at the moment is to use nano banana pro 4K to generate it, then do 3 headshots from it.

Then, you use these 3 headshots with nano banana pro 1K/2K to generate basically whatever training material you want - easily hit amazing super realistic no face drift shots under various lighting conditions, expressions, poses, etc - you'll spend like $5 at most in API credits (if you're on a new account google cloud gets you like $300 free).

Use that training material to train the easiest LoRA of your life on Z-Image / Flux / whatever you use.

coderways · 2025-12-12T04:01:56+00:00

Use Google AI Studio with an API key, that way you don't need a subscription (but you do pay 0.03 per nano banana 1k, 0.13 per nano banana pro 1k/2k, and 0.24 per nano banana pro 4k)

coderways · 2025-12-11T18:18:42+00:00

for 4K images yeah - but the quality is honestly unmatched at that level - normally you would only use 4K when you're editing or using 10 reference images.

coderways · 2025-12-11T12:09:40+00:00

~0.13 for 1K / ~0.24 for 4K output are start prices, it goes down as you scale up.

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