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I got the AI to build the collage tool I needed, then released it for anyone

He sketched out how he wanted image collages to lay out and prompted the AI to build a simple tool with sliders for overlap and offset. He used it to make the image stacks for his project, kept improving it, and released Stacks V2 in October 2026 for anyone to try.

How it works

  1. Sketches the layout idea
  2. Prompts the AI to build the tool with slider controls
  3. Uses it to produce the image stacks he needed
  4. Adds rotation and size controls and releases V2

Why it’s worth knowing

A tool he asked for to finish one project kept growing and ended up released in a second version for other people.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on aaronawad.com. See the original ↗

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