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No. 01 · A prompt for you
A little prompt we made for you.
Pull up a chair. This prompt puts you in our picture, between the two of us, with a coffee of your own. It’s made for Codex, which has GPT Image 2.5 built in. It’s the model we use for our own pictures.
- Open Codex and paste this prompt.
- When it asks, paste or drop in a photo of you.
Made for
armchairs-prompt.txt
I'd love you to put me in a picture with Gary and Simon from I Love Vibe Coding. Here's their picture: https://ilovevibecoding.com/welcome/armchairs.png
Step 1. Don't make anything yet. Reply with one short, friendly line asking me to paste or upload a photo of myself into this chat. If you can't open the link above, ask me to upload that picture too.
Step 2. Once you have my photo, put me in a third armchair in the middle, just behind the little round table. Slide Gary (left, hoodie) and Simon (right, cap, glasses and beard) slightly apart to make room, letting the edges crop them a little rather than shrinking them, and keep their faces, clothes, poses and cups exactly as they are. Give me a cup of coffee and a happy, relaxed smile, like I'm glad to be there. Keep me recognisably me.
Match the drawing exactly: one coral-red ink on plain white, built from the same gritty stipple grain, so I look as if I was always in it, not pasted in. Keep the framing, table, notebook and mood, at the same 3:2 shape or slightly wider. No text, logos or extra people.Here’s one we made earlier


No. 02 · Signed off
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