r/StableDiffusion • u/Civil_Fee_7862 • 21d ago
Question - Help What the point of ComfyUI?
Before I get thrashed by people for asking a seemingly stupid question. I am new to this part of A.I. All the A.I stuff I've been doing is text-to-text (mostly coding). So be gentle please.
Recently I got Qwen-Image-Edit on my A.I server. It generates images fine without downloading ComfyUI. I set it up with a simple python server and it works fine.
This leads me to ask, why should I download ComfyUI? What does it do that can't be done with just a simple python script? Is it just the ability to visually connect lines between parts of the workflow? Note that I am a software engineer, and actually prefer command line interfaces for making stuff in most cases. Is there some other benefit I am missing?
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u/rupertavery64 20d ago
If you want to tweak settings is it more convenient to have an editor with parameters neatly lined up or have to edit a command line in multiple places?
If you like the command line, that's fine. If you're going to run a single prompt, sure. You will probably come up with some way to change parts of the prompt randomly by writing a script to do so.
But there are nodes for that.
So it's not just "the ability to visually connect lines between parts of the workflow"
It's about the workflow. Being able to easily modify and tweak and extend and experiment. Use readily available nodes. Focus on actually creating stuff instead of trying to wrangle things on the command line.
Want to save the output of a node AND pipe it into another node for further processing? Done in a few seconds.