AUTHOR

Yana Lialuke

Yana Lialuke tests AI models hands-on at thehype.: image, 3D and LLMs on real build jobs, same prompt, real costs. AI marketer turned creator, she builds with agents, from a 3D game to Three.js scenes, and shows the prompts and what broke.

ARTICLES BY Yana Lialuke

Comic-style race: a lime-green supercar crosses the checkered finish line while a smoking orange supercar trails behind

models

gemini 4 argon vs claude opus 5.5 – two 1-shot new york scenes, one prompt

Yana Lialuke 14 Oct 2026 15 min read

Comic-style witch pouring green potion into a bubbling cauldron by a gothic window, with a jack-o'-lantern and candles

creative ai

mistral large 4 spent 14x more than deepseek on one haunted room

Yana Lialuke 7 Oct 2026 3 min read

Comic-style man holding up two prints of a horned DJ monster, one purple and orange, one blue, against a teal window

models

google's new nano banana 2.1 vs tencent's hy image 3.5 – closer than we expected

Yana Lialuke 5 Oct 2026 6 min read

Comic-style bald man shouting into a megaphone at a giant boombox under a stone statue, with a fish, apples, a box and soda

guides

claude opus 5.5 built a 3d game in 11 hours for $178

Yana Lialuke 5 Oct 2026 10 min read

Illustration of a man in a leather jacket holding a blue photo and an orange photo under studio lights

models

new flux.3 costs 2.8x more than seedream 5.0 flash. is it worth it?

Yana Lialuke 2 Oct 2026 7 min read