Anyone who would be interested in doing some commission art? I'd kind-of like some silly propaganda style posters about modern performance optimization ideas. Still brainstorming on all the slogans and such, but curious if there was anyone interested in this and what the prices would be.

I'd be happy for the result to also be made more publicly available under a relevant, reasonably permissive CC license if that was appealing or not at the artist's preference.

Also, happy to have suggestions for slogans in this spirit here.

The inspiration for this was a comment I made recently "Pointers are the enemy.".

Current ideas:
- Chasing pointers stalls cycles
- Victory through locality
- Careless pointers cost performance
- Stay calm and avoid dereferencing
- We can do it! Build on the stack!

@chandlerc
Fun idea! These were a bit forced attempts :D

this is your flamegraph - it stands for performance - fight for it.

Turn your jank into stability - at the benchmark.

Bits of careless bloat - are pieced together for heavy lag

Instructions power the cpu - don’t waste a cycle

@chandlerc and for the counter propaganda: "loose timings sink ships!"
@chandlerc Thanks for not just jumping to AI for this

@rlabrecque FWIW, I looked to see what it did, as this isn't an individual artist style but historical one. The results helped confirm the idea is good, but more as a prototype or sketch, not the quality I'd really want here.

I feel like this is one of the (very few) good uses of ai images: testing out an idea to see if it makes any sense visually, and then working with am artist or designer to bring to life.

@chandlerc No disagreements there.
My view on this is similar for LLM chats/searches. Fine for personal use, but don't just copy the output of one and paste it to me. Use it to help form your opinions or thoughts and then produce something original from that. (Same thought with LLMs for code too) 👍

@chandlerc
This sounds fun, I’d be interested! 😄
I’m an artist and would love to hear more about the ideas and scope. We can talk pricing once details are clearer.

You can reach me on email or Discord, whatever works best for you.

Email :
[email protected]

Discord
ruthconwayy

@chandlerc I would like to be notified when these are for sale

@chandlerc Id love to. Here's my most recent poster. I give the files away for non-commercial use on my Patreon and sell low cost prints on my site.

Would be happy to do one with you. I don't usually charge for this but I def need income! Maybe joining my Patreon is a good exchange?