Chris Barber

Head of Development @ Silverside AI • I make art with code! •

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

I feel like I have the force

genuary day 10: generative music

#genuary10 #genuary2023

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@luisocampox @AnthropicAI Congrats!! I make art with code (you can find me on Instagram @code_rgb), I build with Claude a lot and would be interested in potentially being a part of the Anthropic influencer community :)

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@willdepue I thought you were still at OpenAI haha and then I checked your profile, what are you up to now?

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@krea_ai Congrats on the release! Awesome stuff

[ComfyUI @ComfyUI]

Most AI tools are a black box.

You put something in and have limited say over what happens in between. For production pipelines, that's a dealbreaker.

Silverside, an AI innovation lab running full production pipelines for advertising, needed a different approach. Node-based, auditable, and fully controllable at every step. They built on ComfyUI.

" We needed to go beyond what a single person in the backyard could do. That's when comfy UI really comes in . You can break your production into little nodes, adjust one thing, and everything in your pipeline adjusts automatically. " - @Silverside_AI, Co-Founder, Silverside

That granularity matters at studio scale. Silverside isn't prompting their engineering workflows. Each node is an explicit decision point: model selection, conditioning, sampling parameters, compositing logic.

The graph is the pipeline, and it's fully reproducible.

The result is generative output that carries intentional craft. Not because an artist got lucky with a prompt, but because the workflow was designed to produce it consistently.

That's the difference between a tool built for consumers and infrastructure built for production.

If you're a TD, pipeline engineer, or generalist figuring out where ComfyUI fits in a real production environment, see how Silverside uses ComfyUI as a full production engine.

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@AnhPhuNguyen1 @bit_of_rei Sweet!! Yeah would love to chat - great video @bit_of_rei

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@stevelauda_ I’ve been using it a good amount and a bunch of people in my company too. It’s great for variations of designs + decks

[ComfyUI @ComfyUI]

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M.

Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @chemistry , TruArrow, and others.

But before anything else: this belongs to the community.

ComfyUI started as one developer and one open-source repo. No roadmap. No company. Just creators who wanted real control over how they built with AI.

That community is now:

→ 4 million users
→ 60,000+ community-built nodes
→ 150,000+ daily downloads

Every number traces back to people who built in the open, for anyone to use.

Here's where the funding goes:

→ Comfy Cloud: for teams and studios that need security and scale
→ Collaborative workflows: versioning and iteration built for how studios actually work
→ A better local experience: more seamless, more stable
→ Ecosystem reliability: making 60,000+ community nodes more dependable
→ Day-one model support: every major release, compatible at launch

We are not building a walled garden.

We are building open infrastructure, built to last.

Thank you genuinely,
The ComfyUI Team

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@MoriYuzan For sure, I don't think they are at the same level right now but with the rate of improvement in the video model space, I could see it happening in a year or less honestly

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@zan2434 @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr Insanely cool, how did you optimize LTX so much?

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@Hadley Cursor is great, I use it every day over claude code and codex

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@vikhyatk This is so sick! Going to integrate it into my tool soon

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@QuiverAI Are you guys on Fal AI?

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@rehan_shei pretty awesome -- what model?

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@LTXStudio You can generate a new video by typing in a location at the top (takes around a minute and a half to generate)

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

Weekend project:

Experimented with LTX 2.3 (@LTXStudio) to make infinite CCTV cameras of different locations. Looking through these feels like interdimensional cable from Rick and Morty. Check it out:

https://t.co/hP4UtRg4JH

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@alisaqqt That’s cheap compared to Veo 3.1 and Kling 3.0

[Chris Barber @code_rgb]

@ivanhzhao @NotionHQ Hmm I was trying it out and then it wouldn't let accept an actual task? I can only reject or delete the page