GPT Image 1.5 Shines (If You Do This)

Hello, and happy Sunday! This is the final Context Window of the year. On Monday we’ll publish Every’s year by the numbers, looking back at the best of what we wrote, built, and produced in 2025. We’ll be back to regular publishing with Context Window on January 4.—Kate Lee

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Mini-Vibe Check: GPT Image 1.5 is slick, but watch the context drift

Image generation has gotten good enough that Every’s senior designer Daniel Rodrigues now asks “Can AI do this?” before opening Figma. But different models serve different jobs. Think of them like art supplies: Midjourney is oil paint: textured, unpredictable, full of happy accidents. Google’s Nano Banana Pro is a technical pen: precise, consistent, no surprises.

So where does GPT Image 1.5 fit in the toolkit?

OpenAI’s newest image generation model promises four times faster generation, better instruction-following, and precise editing. Daniel stress-tested it with a detailed photorealistic prompt:

A man eating in a Spanish bar. He has medium-brown skin, a mustache, and is wearing a blue button-up shirt. He is eating Spanish potato omelette, with several plates of food on the table. The bar looks real and busy, with bottles and objects in the background. On the wall in the background, there is a calendar for December. The number 16 is circled with a marker. Realistic photo style.