2 minute read / Apr 21, 2025 /
Rabbits on Firetrucks Redux
Two years ago I published an image of a rabbit on a fire truck to demonstrate how effective image generation was for blog posts.
The conclusion at the time : the images were unusable.
In 2025, the opposite is true - with one caveat.
Prompt: Coupa & Thoma Bravo logos each in front of a cloud with a plus sign between them.
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Two years has brought tremendous professionalism to new image. Corporate street art is now pixel-perfect professional. The clouds and the + sign are perfect, and the logos look the part.
But! They are not the logos of either Coupa or Thoma Bravo. Perhaps sufficiently high-quality to be published under a less discerning editor or good enough to crop out the logos and replace the real ones by hand.
Prompt: a collection of crypto tokens on a cosmic background.
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The crypto tokens are far more polished. They are different colors, consistent shapes. The Ethereum logo is repeated often. And the other logos are not recognizable tokens, but overall, again, a publishable image with enough professionalism & pizazz to grab readers’ attention.
Prompt: a Magic8 Ball with the year 2023 on the internal pyramid.
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The Magic 8-Ball has made huge strides from the nonsensical 2023 iteration that struggled to generate coherent numbers to a glass ball on a desk with a pyramid inside and the number of the year.
It isn’t quite the rendition I had imagined : peering through viewport at the bottom of a Magic 8-Ball with the year on the internal pyramid floating in the murky blue water, but again, reasonable enough to convey the idea.
Prompt: a rabbit on an Ikea fire truck.
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The only consumer image of the initial test, this image proved that consumer requests of things like a rabbit on a fire truck had a wide range of acceptable outcomes.
That’s clearly true ; however, the 2025 version is superior in almost every way. It’s far more photo-realistic. The IKEA logo is emblazoned on the truck. The toy is properly sized.
Within 24 months, image rendering technology has advanced to very nearly production quality with a single prompt.