Prompts, DALLE-3, Midjourney Tips & the future of software. Jam packed.
How we create software will forever change and we're currently living through that paradigm shift in real-time. This week we will look at some of the incredible new tools that are getting released.
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Tools that change how we build software
We’re currently in the midst of a global AI revolution. One that is touching everything that we are interacting with. Because of this everything is about to change. Street advertising from large brands are using AI to generate A/B/C tests on the fly. In mainstream media shorts on social platforms, voices are cloned from the anchors and mass-produced. These and many more things are enabled by this wave of new tools. Let’s look at a few that are currently creating ripples.
HeyGen
HeyGen is a video tool that allows you to do an array of powerful things. You can create Avatars, Voices, Translate and dub your own content (see below). Plus a lot more. Go and check it out.
Fine
Now this tool is geared towards developers. It’s probably one of the first agent type apps I’ve seen that actually works really well. It works by you focusing on what needs to get done and documenting that. Then the AI gets to work. Laying out a plan, and executing, then you as the human driver gets to review. I think this is the future. Powerful, and brings down barriers to enter.
→ Fine.dev
Project IDX from Google
This is a sneak peek at what Google is working on for developers and the IDE(IDX) platform they are building. Think VS code for the UI, ChatGPT style chat for the AI all running in the cloud.
→ idx.dev
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From the Anysphere team’s website:
“Humans should focus on bigger problems. Human history is a story of capabilities and tools. New capabilities are rare. They're often discovered rather than invented. In the early ages, we got fire. In the 1800s, we got electricity. In the 1900s, we got computing. And in the 2000s, we are getting artificial intelligence.”
Okay That was a look at some engineering-centric tools this week. I firmly believe that we are living through a paradigm shift at the moment. But it’s not just about developer tools. Next week we will have a look at a few other tools that are turning heads.
OpenAI previews DALL-E 3
Yes, it’s finally happening. DALL-E 3 from OpenAI is getting embedded into ChatGPT and there will be API support. That will happen already next month for enterprise customers and later in November via the labs playground.
What is enchanting is that they are building it straight into ChatGPT. So you’ll be able to ask for images in any conversations at any point in time. Very powerful.
The demo is also cute, they are doing a bedtime story, and I feel like they hit a nerve given that we built and run bedtimestory.ai
Quick Midjourney Light Tips
{Light source} portrait a woman over 30 years old with hair with an even parting of chestnut color with light makeup and light ruddy skin, woman with hair removed from the face, woman with brown eyes --ar 2:3
Here is a quick little tip for light tokens you can use in Midjourney.
Above are 3 tips on light, “golden hour light”, “Light Misty” and “Sunbeams”.
This is also part of the E-book, that’s finally getting ready to ship. So sorry for the delays.
Prompt share
Here are some explorations of prompts I’ve been playing with the last few weeks.
A real car overgrown with long fluffy hair and a man with long fluffy hair --ar 16:9 --v 5.1
Side view, a tribal maskot wearing a crochet wool animal mask, next to a stick, in the style of alessio albi, depiction of rural life, grzegorz domaradzki, restrained forms, shot on 70mm, medieval, photographic weavings --style raw --ar 3:4
<https://s.mj.run/gHwfX8VTMNg> <https://s.mj.run/ZxUEKmU3PBE> Technological, 90's walkman, black and red color, nike air shoe, Nike product photo, white background, studio photography --s 300
candid street photography, close-up analog film photo of a black woman in a mirror-kaleidoscope art installation:: analog film photo, reflections on glass, selective focus, light and shadow::0.5 kaleidoscope::0.5 monochrome::-0.5 --v 5.1 --style raw --s 750 --ar 4:5
side-view of a black off-road vehicle by Dieter Rams --ar 4:5 --s 50Thanks for reading to the end
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