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simonwyesterday at 6:12 PM8 repliesview on HN

The pelican riding a bicycle is excellent. I think it's the best I've seen.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/gemini-3-deep-think/


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nickthegreekyesterday at 8:19 PM

I routinely check out the pelicans you post and I do agree, this is the best yet. It seemed to me that the wings/arms were such a big hangup for these generators.

tasukiyesterday at 9:57 PM

Tbh they'd have to be absolutely useless at benchmarkmaxxing if they didn't include your pelican riding a bicycle...

Manabu-eoyesterday at 6:15 PM

How likely this problem is already on the training set by now?

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enraged_camelyesterday at 7:49 PM

Is there a list of these for each model, that you've catalogued somewhere?

throwup238yesterday at 6:16 PM

The reflection of the sun in the water is completely wrong. LLMs are still useless. (/s)

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deron12yesterday at 6:14 PM

It's worth noting that you mean excellent in terms of prior AI output. I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be considered excellent from a "human made art" perspective. In other words, it's still got a ways to go!

Edit: someone needs to explain why this comment is getting downvoted, because I don't understand. Did someone's ego get hurt, or what?

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saberienceyesterday at 6:33 PM

Do you have to still keep trying to bang on about this relentlessly?

It was sort of humorous for the maybe first 2 iterations, now it's tacky, cheesy, and just relentless self-promotion.

Again, like I said before, it's also a terrible benchmark.

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dfdsf2yesterday at 6:43 PM

Highly disagree.

I was expecting something more realistic... the true test of what you are doing is how representative is the thing in relation to the real world. E.g. does the pelican look like a pelican as it exists in reality? This cartoon stuff is cute but doesnt pass muster in my view.

If it doesn't relate to the real world, then it most likely will have no real effect on the real economy. Pure and simple.

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