Looks like everything I write about is some LLM experiment these days. But it’s fun to mess around with it, I can’t help it.
This time I had a go at using CLI Codex to generate SVGs for me. I wanted an envelope SVG to put on the Contact page, but it couldn’t quite get it right. So I asked for another.
And another.
And another.
And by that point I was bored of the original goal of getting a usable SVG, and just enjoyed seeing the variations. So I asked it to generate a hundred of them, and here they are.
The annoying thing was having to ask it to generate 5 or 10 at a time. If you asked for 20 or more, it would start templating, and it would do things like generate a base one, then just vary the backgrounds, for example. If I asked for a hundred straight up, it would start writing a Python script to generate them.
I think the max you’d want to go for is about 5 at a time. And for best results hiding the results from the previous runs, or it will just keep trying to vary existing designs again.