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How many stages should an AI image pipeline have
✦ AI editor's answer
Don't try to do it in one pass — split into 6 stages so each failure mode (legs cut, two heads, drift) is isolated. Forced base-image hash reference holds character consistency.
Source: 3 notes from this publication + operator work logs
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- In Practice2026-05-21
Five failures, one survivor at 1:40 a.m. — fixing the two-headed character
11,147Failure events across the batch› When an AI image pipeline breaks, try removing helpers (ControlNet, regional prompter, post-process segmentation) one at a time before adding more.
- In Practice2026-05-20
One character took 13 phases to ship
13Phases to ship one character› Don't try to finish an AI training pipeline in one shot — split into cleanup → training → validation across 13 phases.
- In Practice2026-05-26
A day spent building agents — the hands only touched the shell
6,382Shell calls — half of all tool use that day› On days when agents are being built, shell dominates — compile/test/batch loops do the work, not IDE assists.
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