alt Hacker NewsSo this is not my experience at all for asking about simple SVG icons for web-pages. Here is one of the examples I have tried for in the past, make a simple cartoon SVG knife for a map icon for a crime map.
https://x.com/CrimeDecoder/status/2080008114615537766
Can see the images for ChatGPT/Claude (Sonnet 5), and Gemini are all quite bad.
Jagged edge of LLMs. How do you explain being able to generate very complicated shapes in the Pelican example but cannot make a much simpler icon without just alluding to it is in the training data?
Thanks for sharing another solid data point. I fear you won't get an answer from my experience [0]. Unfortunately, the blog post decided to forgo the very models that I found to be the worst offenders:
> Here is what Qwen3.6-35B-A3B via Openrouter provided for a sloth riding a skateboard: https://imgur.com/a/Dy8fvR5
> Like Grok 4 Fasts attempt at a mushroom in a rowboat, it is barely recognisable as anything despite both Qwen3.6-35B-A3B and Grok 4 Fast having no issue with more popular (i.e. benchmarked) examples. [...]
> And here is Opus 4.7 [which simonw claimed to provide a worse pelican vs Qwen], again via Openrouter: https://imgur.com/a/Qus1Enf
Anyone who hasn't witnessed such deltas either hasn't looked at enough examples, a sufficient variety of models, or both. And they are, unfortunately, not limited to "SVGMaxxing", but a wide range of evals.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951229