How to Burn $2/Hour on Lambda Labs (And Why You'll Do It Anyway)
You want to generating images. You could buy an H100. It costs as much as a Honda Civic. Or you could rent one from Lambda Labs for the price of a coffee. (A very expensive coffee, if you forget to turn it off).
The Pipeline from Hell
We are chaining together:
- Django (Python, sensible)
- Celery (Distributed queues, chaos)
- Lambda Labs API (The landlord)
- ComfyUI (Spaghetti nodes)
It is a Rube Goldberg machine for generating waifus.
The Graininnies
My images looked like they were printed on sandpaper. Why? VAE Precision. The default VAE runs in fp16. It saves memory. It also makes your art look like garbage. I spent 4 hours debugging “The Graininnies” so you don’t have to.
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