Generative Vision Interview Questions, issue 22, Jun 30, 2026
The DreamBooth Trap
Generative AI Engineer interview at Midjourney, and the interviewer asks:
“You DreamBooth a model on 5 photos of a client’s product. It generates that product perfectly, but now everything else it draws looks broken. Why, and how do you fix it without re-collecting data?”
Don’t say: “Just train on more images of the product”
Why naive few-shot personalization quietly steamrolls your model’s prior knowledge, and how to use a frozen base model as its own supervisor to stop catastrophic forgetting.
The full answer, with the mechanism and the arithmetic, is for paid subscribers on Substack.