Generating ~450 images for $0.50

Gallery link: https://pkf-ai-gallery.pages.dev/

I’ve been getting more and more interested in the Bittensor ecosystem, a decentralized, open-source network interconnected machine learning models.

One of the more interesting “subnets” in the network i…


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Peter Kim Frank

Gallery link: https://pkf-ai-gallery.pages.dev/

I've been getting more and more interested in the Bittensor ecosystem, a decentralized, open-source network interconnected machine learning models.

One of the more interesting "subnets" in the network is Chutes.ai which provides Serverless AI Compute across a bunch of different LLMs, image models, etc. I had listened to them in a recent podcast interview and was looking for an excuse to play around.

I asked DeepSeek-R1 to come up with 50 imaginative prompts:

  • A celestial cathedral floating atop a spiraling nebula, its stained-glass windows depicting constellations come to life, gilded arches entwined with ivy made of starlight, surrounded by floating orbs of liquid mercury
  • An opulent steampunk airship shaped like a mechanical peacock, its feathers crafted from interlocking brass gears and glowing amber lenses, hovering above a fog-shrouded Victorian metropolis illuminated by gaslamps
  • A surreal garden where trees are composed of cascading sapphire ribbons, their roots embedded in pools of liquid gold, guarded by stone serpents with eyes of smoldering opal under a twilight sky streaked with auroras
  • 47 more...

And then ran those through 9 different image models:

  • Dreamshaper XL 1.0
  • Flux 1 Dev
  • Flux 1 Schnell
  • JuggernautXL
  • Ostris Flex 1 Alpha
  • Playground v2.5
  • Psychedelic Trees
  • Realistic Vision v5.1
  • Shitao Omnigen v1

All in all, it cost about $0.50 (~$0.001 per image), which I paid for using $TAO, the native currency of Bittensor.

I used Cursor's new-ish Agent mode to write the Python code to make all of this possible. The entire project took about ~15-20 minutes of tinkering around in Cursor, and then an hour or two to generate all of the images (which I just let run before going to bed).

I then took the list of prompts and image directory and (again) had Cursor generate a gallery that I uploaded to Cloudflare Pages.

You can view the final gallery here: https://pkf-ai-gallery.pages.dev/

Overall, this was a fun little project that has been made possible / much easier through the advent of lower-cost AI models, and code workflow assistants like Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Replit Agent, Q Developer, etc.


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Peter Kim Frank


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