A Dev's 3-Month Journey to an AI Book Cover: Workflow Post-Mortem and Pitfalls
scillicet · reddit · 2026-08-08
A programmer with no artistic background shared a detailed post-mortem of their frustrating three-month journey to create a book cover using AI tools.
- Toolchain Evolution: Started with simple prompts in ChatGPT and Claude, eventually cascading into a complex workflow involving SDXL, Automatic1111, RunPod, Forge, inpainting, masks, and Photopea.
- Core Request: Realizing their workflow was unnecessarily complicated, the author asks the community to critique their technical approach, identify what they should have learned earlier, and point out overcomplicated steps.
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