Sorry, the point? isn’t the point of art pretty much what a person wants it to be?

Not OP and I won't dispute your point exactly but I'd like to point to a book called Pixel Logic wherein the author makes the same point regarding pixel art. Even though you'll be using stuff like the Lasso and Paint Bucket tools the big thing about pixel art is the manual control and precision of pixel placement (by hand) where you employ techniques like anti aliasing (again by hand). Advanced techniques like sub-pixeling when doing animation frames are another thing that makes sense only when you can place pixels one by one.

I have really struggled to get nano banana to follow size/proportion ratios for sprite art. any tips? I fed in a bunch of examples first and tried to write a really strict prompt. I wonder if any of the sw being discussed here can be programmatically controlled by claude code or similar to do sprite work

Like the comment above I split sprite sheets into grids with edges for NBP to follow. I have the option to add the canny edge map to the grid to enforce a lot of consistency as well. Then I specifically tailor the prompt to the task.

But even still it has issues sometimes.

entirely possible I’m just really bad at this stuff but I can’t get browser agents to do simple report pulls without running into a captcha or a dropdown menu that breaks its brain. hopefully this is the one!

good security will always be the eternal enemy of easy automation.

the realm of bots vs bots

this is a disgusting amount of money for this

the third party ones seem to be suffering in similar ways in my short use

I intended to tie experience where it says short use

I intended to tour type where it says tie

I intended to type type where it says your

I intended to type tour where it says your

jesus…it might be time to consider android

oh dear god, tears of joy…they told me I was crazy. this is so validating

I had to threaten to sue them by opting out of their time triggered arbitration clause to get them to give me the deposit back on a car they couldn’t/wouldn't deliver. Carvana sucks.

This is such a self own.

I can't with them anymore. Pick a lane

How much of a hit would you take on quality if you moved the processing local? have you experimented with it? don’t think llamaindex has local sadly

Quite a decent hit. Local models don't perform very well in long contexts. We're planning to support a local-only offline set-up for people to host w/o additional dependencies