ByteDance Seedream 5.5 coming soon with big improvement. 100 Layer Scene Decomposition (Up from 10+ in 5.0 Pro): Splits dense posters, presentation slides, and motion templates into up to 100 individual raster layers with automatic occlusion inpainting behind extracted foreground objects. 80+ Rounds of Drift Resistant Local Editing: Locks unedited pixels (product geometry, facial identity, brand labels) across 80+ sequential single-variable editing passes (background swap -> relighting -> material change -> text addition) to minimize VAE re encoding degradation. Native 4K Output at 16:9 (Up from 2K Cap in 5.0 Pro): Generates native ⁠3840x2160⁠ widescreen frames, eliminating the 2K (⁠~2.36MP⁠) resolution bottleneck on 5.0 Pro for widescreen banners and multi panel storyboard grids. Native 4 Channel RGBA Generation (With Partial Alpha): Outputs true transparent PNG assets directly from the initial prompt, supporting semi transparent alpha values for glass refraction, soft contact shadows, sheer fabric, and fine hair strands without post generation background removal. Optical Font & Style Recognition for Text Re-Rendering: Reads existing font families, weights, colors, and layout hierarchy inside an image so you can translate or swap campaign copy (across English, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai) and re render matching typography in place. Sub Headline & Micro Copy Multilingual Fidelity: Sharpens stroke accuracy on dense, small-scale text specifically pricing, units, dates, bottle volume markings, and promotional fine print where 5.0 Pro was limited to larger poster headlines. Relighting Consistent Material & Portrait Shaders: Upgrades surface physics for ceramic micro texture, brushed metal anisotropy, glass refraction, and skin pores so that shifting lighting conditions (such as daylight to nighttime) updates reflections and contact shadows without smoothing skin texture or warping product labels. Role Assigned Multi Reference & Negative-Space Planning: Formalizes reference routing by assigning distinct jobs to each input image (Reference A = subject identity, Reference B = color palette, Reference C = pose, Reference D = layout) while automatically reserving clean negative space for headlines and CTAs.

MacBooks are crappy for multi/parallel agent work. fseventsd keeps going wild after a few days. "kill fseventsd on a cadence" feels dumb. So... aside from moving to linux, anyone had experience with a volume specifically for your agent workspaces, and disable fseventsd there?

As I posted before, I've cancelled almost all of the SaaS subscriptions for my business The only thing I still pay for as a business: - AI inference - Hetzner server hosting - Cloudflare storage - Backblaze backups - Taxes Now I started cancelling personal subscriptions too and just vibecoding my own versions or using Claude to take an open source project that does the same and then customize it for myself All I still pay for personally is: - Claude Code - YouTube (content) - Spotify (content) - Starlink (internet) - Phone eSIM - Personal cloud storage - Electricity and water (utility) - Taxes So if we summarize it for both, I only still pay for: - AI inference - Content - Cloud storage & hosting - Connectivity - Electricity & water - Taxes So to summarize all my money now goes to: - Content - Data centers - Power plants + water - Governments I think we'll be facing a tidal wave of cancellations once people find out how much money they can save It's just how the economy works

Gods Don't Give Gifts has two writers, eleven voice actors, four composers, nine core creatives, and a five person post-prod team (including a foley artist). 9+ months of work.