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Claude Knows Kung Fu. Midjourney's Still in the Dojo (+V8.1?)
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- Fast Hours
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- Apr 5, 2026
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- 5020
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Summary
In episode 65, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn return for another round of Midjourney Fast Hours and immediately do what they do best: poke at bleeding-edge AI tools until something breaks, gets weird, or accidentally becomes useful.They kick things off with fresh Midjourney V8 impressions, including what changed after another week of testing, why resetting personalization profiles helped, where the weird magic still shows up, and why V8 still feels like it is waiting for its real arrival. They also dig into the rumored Midjourney V8.1 update, what it could fix, and why the real test may come down to the edit model, text rendering, consistency, and whether Midjourney can pull serious users back into the platform.Then the episode takes a sharp turn into Claude, and honestly, this is where things get deliciously nerdy. Drew and Rory unpack how they are building with Claude in real life: when something should become a skill, how Claude MD files shape everything downstream, why auditing your own setups matters, how to think beyond rigid workflows, and what happens when your AI starts feeling less like a chatbot and more like a strange little operating system trained on your habits, instincts, and creative baggage.They also get into edge-case detection, memory files for collaborators and clients, private repos, Codex as backup muscle, analogy engines, and a growing obsession with building a “creative intelligence layer” that can carry more of his actual thought process into AI tools. ---⏱️ Fast Hour00:00 Intro and the boys are back01:12 Why the podcast got bigger than Midjourney03:25 Rory’s updated Midjourney V8 take04:40 Why new personalization profiles helped06:31 The weird Midjourney magic is back13:24 Midjourney 8.1 might be the real V816:36 Why the edit model really matter…