u/FloatyFish

I’m a product designer who’s playing around with various LLMs to see how they could potentially fit into my workflow. Currently, I’ve been playing around with having GPT Images generate images detailing UI component design specs, and then asking Codex to read the specs and implement them. However, this runs through my limits pretty quickly, so I’m looking to see if any of the open source LLMs could potentially work here.

I originally looked at using Deepseek, but it can’t read images. Design Arena has Kimi and GLM trading blows, so I was wondering if anybody has experience with using them for implementing UI components either from an image, or just in general. Also looked at Qwen but it doesn’t show up in Design Arenas benchmarks too often. Any advice would be appreciated!

Just ordered my first pair of Vuarnets, the apparently now discontinued VL2008 Districts. Chose them because I really like the light tortoiseshell look, but when I went to Vuarnets website, they implied that the lenses were best for mountainous terrain. The Gulf Coast has a distinct lack of mountains, so now I’m wondering if I should’ve gotten a different frame with lens better suited for activities like going to the beach and being on the water. Any advice would be welcome.

Thinking about buying a kayak, and was wondering if anybody had an idea as to where the best spots to launch a kayak are. Doesn't matter if it's gulfside or bayside.

A house up the street caught fire from me, but from what I can tell most of the damage was to the interior and then some cosmetic damage on the outside. It’s clearly not inhabitable as the people that lived there haven’t been back since it caught on fire, but it got me thinking about what happens to houses like that. Is it worth it to completely gut the inside and put in a new interior, or would it be better to sell as-is to a developer that’ll just knock it down and put up a new house?

Figured some people may be interested in attending. I plan on going to support turning everything into condos/apartments/offices/mixed use, and to avoid having Scientology or Scientology related developers take it over.