Plutonic Rainbows

Qwen3-Max

I had a proper look at this today, and I came away really impressed. The whole suite feels fast and intuitive — snappy edits, clean results, and a layout that doesn’t slow you down. What really grabbed my attention, though, was the colorisation ability. It’s not just a gimmick — it handles subtle tones with surprising accuracy, breathing life into black-and-white images without that washed-out, artificial look you sometimes get elsewhere.

Put side by side with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), it’s easily on the same level, and in some respects — especially speed, ease of use, and the natural quality of its colorisation — it might even be ahead. It feels less like an alternative and more like a genuine leap forward in what image editing can offer.

GPT-5-Codex

Was released exclusively for a few days on OpenAI Plus and Pro accounts. It is now also available through the API.

A Flux.1 [Dev] image of Raquel Gibson, 2005.

OpenAI Codex

I have switched over to Codex — it’s much cheaper, and for now it seems far more reliable. I’m not running into the problems that have plagued Claude Code over the past month.

I have managed to get Github integration, with Codex loading the appropriate model and permissions. I will probably use Gemini CLI for planning and stick with Codex for a few weeks.