Brandon G. Neri

Corgi man @ RetroDiffusion

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

Built a custom style to generate 48x48 achievement/unlock icons for the game I'm working on!

I know I keep harping on it but the 'my styles' system really is insanely powerful for game dev.

Guide on how I made the style below :)

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

ACE Step 1.5 XL is good, but probably still not as good

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

I've been playing with music models the last couple weeks and so far there's nothing close to Suno custom models. But their copyright detection is soooo anoying

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

WTF is this prompt?

"A classical Spanish guitar as if performed by el mariachi band"

🙃

[Stability AI @StabilityAI]

Meet Stable Audio 3.0, the open-weight model family built for artistic experimentation.

This is our open invitation to experiment with generative audio. We believe the best innovations are still waiting to be built.

The 4-1-1 on 3.0:

📣 You own your outputs, and can distribute and commercialize them under the Stability AI Community License (up to $1 million in revenue).

🎵 New and improved capabilities include variable-length generation up to six minutes, and full song composition on portable devices, no GPU required.

✅ Trained on a fully licensed dataset.

🎨 You can customize the models on your own library with support for LoRa training, which we’ve documented for the first time.

More on the models 👇

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

I want to highlight some of the really cool custom styles made with Retro Diffusion.

It's still in my opinion the strongest feature on the site. It takes a little to get right, but once you have a style nailed down, you can just go into mass production mode so easily!

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

Getting in-canvas editing ready to go this weekend :)

Now Retro Diffusion will have a quick way to edit, inpaint, and expand images, along with extremely powerful color controls, background removal, and more.

This is all part of a new "Tools" category :)

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

If you're not using Retro Diffusion you're missing out on the highest quality pixel art generation out there.

It's the only tool actually made by people who know what they are doing, have professional experience in art, game dev, and AI.

It's so powerful.

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

Investing on a really robust automated testing infra on this AI times is so worth it!

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

We added some nice QoL to the site, just a simple way to pin previous generations so you don't need to scroll forever in the sidebar to find them.

Great for working on projects where you have a lot of reference assets :)

[Yonkykong @yonkykong]

@RealAstropulse The results from RetroDiffusion AI are incredible.

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

One of the best things about Retro Diffusion these days is the ability to make custom styles.
Its overlooked by a lot of users, but once you get a style built its so impactful.

I've generated easily over 1000 consistent portraits at this point for different things. ~$0.01 each!

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

Everyone thinking GPT Image 2.0 can do pixel art, I refer you back to this.

Nothing has changed 🤣

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

I sometimes forget how insane the quality is on RD Pro :P

[Astropulse @RealAstropulse]

So I made a custom style based on some of my old artwork- now you can generate an infinite amount of unique characters with this dark background portrait style.

I LOVE how this came out, it's my favorite style yet.

All just built with the "my styles" feature, no training!

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

@RealAstropulse Same! Gave up and paid the 100 USD Codex sub :/

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

I was using the 20 USD Codex plan, they nerfed it to oblivion.

None of the alt providers are worth IMHO. Ollama Cloud is too unreliable, but the usage is good

https://t.co/ByVZfp9hNf super slow at times, probably on peak hours, but for some reason are always my working hours

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

My main problem with all these providers is reliability. Sometimes are super slow or you hit an extremely quantized endpoint on high traffic hours and the agents doesn't get the right tool calls. So annoying

[Brandon G. Neri @nerijs]

OpenCode Go is really good, but I need more than the provided usage and Zen get super expensive really quickly, even with GLM 5.1

I'm back to Codex, but feels wrong to pay 100/200 USD/month for a freaking subscription XD

[Andreas Kling @awesomekling]

I was interested in reading this book but then I heard the author used a typewriter, so now I have lost all interest and I'm never going to read it!!