Nano Banana

Nano Banana is an image generation model available through the kie.ai platform. Integrated into my workflow as a primary tool for creating blog covers and illustrations for social media.

In my practice, Nano Banana took the place of Midjourney for tasks with a high frequency of requests: when you need to generate 10–15 covers per day, it is not practical to pay for Midjourney Pro. Kie.ai offers more flexible token pricing. The quality of the pictures is sufficient for blog covers and Telegram posts - not masterpieces, but clean, professional visuals.

The integration works through the kie.ai API and a custom skill in my Claude Code - I sketch out the topic of the article, the skill generates a prompt and automatically generates several cover options. This is a typical example of automating a repetitive creative task: it does not remove the creative solution, but it removes the routine of execution.