Pablo Stanley

Pablo Stanley

AI feels like a drug

I forced myself to make pixel art by hand. My brain had withdrawal symptoms.

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Pablo Stanley
Apr 13, 2026
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This weekend I made pixel art by hand. 32 by 32 pixels. Tiny little robot characters. No AI. No special models or generation. No prompts. Just me, a janky pixel editor, and a lot of squinting.

And my brain would not shut up.

The whole time I was drawing... my head kept going: what if u trained a LoRA model to generate pixel art in this style? What if you …

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