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Opinion
Comfyanonymous criticizes Gradio for coupling interface logic with backends
“Yeah, Gradio, I don't like Gradio. It's bad. Like, the, that's one of the reasons why, like, Automatic was very bad. It's great because the problem with Gradio, it forces you to, well, not forces you, but it kind of makes your interface logic and your back-end…”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 28:56 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
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Automatic1111's inefficient SDXL implementation drove ComfyUI's viral user adoption
“The big, one point zero release happened, and wow, Confu UI was the only way a lot of people could actually run it on their computers, because it just, like, automatic was so, like, inefficient and bad that most people couldn't act, like, it just wouldn't work…”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 47:23 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
What-if
Comfy: Extending Automatic1111 Was Harder Than Building ComfyUI From Scratch
“It would have been harder to implement that in the auto interface than to create my own interface, so that's when I decided to create my own.”
comfyanonymous (Comfy) Jan 4, 2025 ▶ 4:26 AI Engineering for Art - with comfyanonymous
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