Midjourney V8 First Impressions + Claude Code Breakthroughs

About this episode

Drew and Rory discuss their first impressions of Midjourney V8 and delve into the complexities of Claude Code and creative workflows.

Drew and Rory crawl back from travel chaos, token addiction, and mild creative delusion to answer the question everyone’s been asking: did Midjourney V8 finally land... and was it worth the wait?In this episode, they break down their real first impressions of Midjourney V8, including what feels better, what feels busted, why mood boards are suddenly acting possessed, and why the old “short and vibey” prompting style may have quietly lost its crown. They get into coherence, SV6 vs. SV7 behavior, stylize weirdness, failed generations, the alpha-site disappointment, and the one thing that actually matters now: whether Midjourney can ship a truly usable edit model before everyone wanders off to easier tools.Then the conversation mutates into a full-blown Claude Code spiral. Drew and Rory unpack the Chrome extensions, internal skills, markdown systems, Notion setups, custom workflows, and tiny automations they’re building at an alarming pace. There’s talk of AI writing detection, reusable agent pipelines, presentation hacks, Pinterest utilities, GitHub repos, and the growing suspicion that the real side effect of Claude Code is not productivity. It is total psychic collapse with…

People in this episode

Hosts: Drew Brucker, Rory Flynn

Topics covered

• Midjourney V8
• Claude Code
• AI image generation
• creative workflows
• automation systems
• prompt structure

Keywords

• Midjourney V8
• Claude Code
• mood boards
• AI writing detection
• automation
• Chrome extensions
• creative delusion
• prompting style

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Notion, GitHub, Pinterest, Chrome

Products: Midjourney V8, Claude Code

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