Claude Knows Kung Fu. Midjourney's Still in the Dojo (+V8.1?)
From Midjourney Fast Hours by Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn
April 5, 2026 · 1h 24m · Season 3 · Episode 6
About this episode
Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn explore the latest updates in Midjourney and delve into the integration of Claude in creative workflows.
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…
People in this episode
Hosts: Drew Brucker, Rory Flynn
Topics covered
- AI tools
- Midjourney updates
- Claude integration
- creative intelligence
- workflow optimization
- edge-case detection
Keywords
- Midjourney
- Claude
- AI tools
- creative intelligence
- V8 updates
- workflow
- edge-case detection
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Codex
Products: Midjourney, Claude, Claude MD, Midjourney V8, Midjourney V8.1
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