From gibberish text to flawless posters: AI image generation's rapid leap
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-13
The author recalls that mere months ago, AI-generated images were full of crazy illegible glyph writing you had to decode. The attached image shows how far things have come: a detailed illustration of a sleeping founder whose fleet of small robot agents works overnight — coding, analyzing data, sending emails, updating sprint boards — captioned "The best founders have their agents working overnight."
The contrast highlights how quickly image models have fixed their signature failure mode: garbled text rendering is largely gone, and models now produce semantically accurate, compositionally complex illustrated scenes.
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