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Gary and Simon talking in two armchairs.

Thanks for joining us.

We’re Gary and Simon, and we’re really glad you’re here. Once a week we’ll send you our latest articles, plus what we’re reading and finding interesting.

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.

  1. Open Codex and paste this prompt.
  2. When it asks, paste or drop in a photo of you.

Made for

CodexGPT Image 2.5 is built in
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.

If Codex can’t open the link, save our picture and drop it in too.

Save our picture

Here’s one we made earlier

Gary and Simon in their armchairs with a made-up woman between them, smiling and holding a coffee, all in coral stipple.
Example only, made with Codex and GPT Image 2.5. The person in the middle is made up: we generated her for testing, so no real person’s photo was used. Your picture will come out differently.

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No. 02 · Signed off

Created byGary and Simon.

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Gary and Simon talking over coffee in two armchairs, with a notebook on the little round table between them.

No. 03 · Where to next

Explore while you wait.

  • 01 / Blog

    Read the latest articles.

    Experiments, guides, and things we’ve learned along the way.

    9 articles. Newest 13 Oct 2026.

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  • 02 / Tools

    Browse our latest tools.

    Useful tools for your next build.

    2 live tools. 3 concepts.

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  • 03 / About

    Who we are.

    Why we started this, how we work, and how we check what AI makes.

    Gary Kirwan and Simon Bloom.

    About us
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