of making creative work with AI.
Rory Flynn and Drew Brucker came up in branding and advertising. Now they pressure-test every AI creative tool in public, from Midjourney to Seedance to Claude, and tell you what matters, what works and what’s overhyped. New episode every Sunday.
Claude Opus Feels Like Midjourney Now
01Track · the archive
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OPUS FEELS LIKE MIDJOURNEY NOW
Claude Opus Feels Like Midjourney Now
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02Transcribe · the receipts
Real lines from the latest episodes. Every quote links to the second it was said.
“One of the absolute wildest things that I've realized from the last week is that Opus sort of feels like Midjourney. … It doesn't need to be point for point, direction for direction.”
“It reads through the transcript one word, one word at a time. It does not ingest the full thing and then go back.”
“A lot of these organizations are really operating at a very I don't know what you want to call, like adolescent maturity level in terms of the AI adoption.”
“I'm speaking from a bad position over here because I don't have project managers anymore. Like Claude's my project manager.”
“What I realized was that I'd spent my entire career thinking that brands were brands and agencies were out there looking for something cool. But but brands are looking for something that sells.”
“There's you know, 99% of people are just gonna like use it like a piece of paper. They're gonna write on it with like a pencil. And then there's someone that's gonna make origami.”
03Classify · the tools
45 tools, counted across 85 episodes. When each one first showed up, when we last talked about it, and how often.
04Clip · the machine
122 Shorts and counting, cut and finished by our own clip engine. Start with one, stay for the full episode.
05Identify · the guests
Studio founders, creative directors and builders who make the work, not just post about it.
06Detect · the hosts
Rory and Drew started the show in July 2024 as Midjourney Fast Hours, named for the “fast hours” you burn generating in Midjourney’s Fast Mode. Eighty-some episodes later it covers every tool a working creative touches.
Co-host · Founder, Systematiq AI
Rory Flynn is the founder of Systematiq AI, which helps creative and marketing teams put AI to work. Before AI he worked in brand licensing, brand IP and e-commerce marketing. Midjourney turned him into an educator, and today he builds AI workflows, speaks on AI and creative production, and lives in Brooklyn.
Followers · Sep 2026
Co-host · AI Creative Consultant, Founder of Brainchild Lab
Drew Brucker is a creative strategist and Midjourney educator focused on brand and art direction. An American Marketing Association 4 Under 40 honoree (2023), he has run Midjourney workshops for more than 250 people and teams, and helps brands build on-brand visual systems with AI.
Followers · Sep 2026
07Match · your tool
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Fast Hours is a weekly generative AI podcast where Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn dig into the craft, taste, and business of making creative work with AI.
Rory Flynn, founder of Systematiq AI, and Drew Brucker, AI creative consultant and founder of Brainchild Lab.
Yes. It launched on July 2, 2024 as Midjourney Fast Hours and dropped “Midjourney” from the name in Episode 67 (April 2026) as it expanded to image, video, LLMs and agents.
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