Am I the only one who slightly miss the pelican on a bike? It was a nice novelty... of course I could make one myself, but I became conditioned to expect one for every new model. Other than his great writing on AI, it became part of the package. Some small fun quirk to distract us from the non stop ping pong between the extremes of "omh are you still writing prompts you should use loops / 200k github stars, for a markdown file / someone just open sourced _ and it changes everything!" vs "haha the AI told me to walk to the car wash / it can't recognize and upside down cup"
I posted the pelican a couple of days ago: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/claude-fable-5/#and-som...
It wasn't particularly noteworthy as pelicans go - in fact, given the strength of Fable, I see it as another signal that the pelican benchmark no longer has the unexplained predictive power of model capacity that it used to.