Engineer calls Claude Code work "soul-sucking"

Two ComfyUI nodes, ComfyUI-Depth-Anything-3 and ComfyUI-Lotus-2, target clean 'white models' and normal guidance for video diffusion workflows. The release names MiniMax H3 and Wan 2.1 as supported models.

A short explainer video walks through what a latent space is and how it behaves, made in response to a request on r/StableDiffusion. It is aimed at readers working with diffusion image models.

A r/StableDiffusion post asks which prompt to use with MiniMax H3's reference-video feature to make it read a character sheet as one person across different poses, angles, and distances.

A r/StableDiffusion thread asks for a reliable way to achieve the perfect motion and character replacement seen in recent AI videos using Minimax. The poster says Viggle and replacement LoRAs fall short of that quality.

A developer building an architecture/interior design SaaS reports paying $200/month for Claude and $100/month for ChatGPT while using Claude Fable/Opus for roughly 90% of the build, with Codex used occasionally. The post cites a large cost gap between Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex Sol 6.1 for scraping furniture and finishes into an internal catalogue.

The post chronicles 30 days of setbacks for Codex users: GPT-6 Sol shipped alongside Opus 5.5 but underperformed even the older Luna, and OpenAI cut usage on its $200 plan from 20x to 10x at the same price just before DevDay.

An 8-year lead dev on r/ClaudeAI describes moving from ChatGPT to Copilot to Claude Code, now running it through worktree-oriented IDEs, and says he no longer switches models with every update. He asks other experienced devs when they stopped reviewing everything the AI writes.