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A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

Source: danielball.com
Author: westsmith
Date: Published Oct 20, 2026

Why it matters

Image API prices vary over 100x and providers retire models on short notice. This guide explains billing, abstraction layers and logging, and how to wire generation into agents.

Terms in this piece · Glossary

multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.

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