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LLM benchmark: Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2024-11-28 · latest 2026-09-06

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  1. The [Pelican Benchmark]( https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle ) is in the LLM's training data and probably not a useful indicator of improving LLM capabilities any more. For the past two years, I've run the Little Dorrit Editor…
  2. …therefore you can tune a model as much as possible. One of real benchmarks is drawing of pelican - https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle - Simon Willison made it for his llms’ tests. If you want really find out a model that works for…
  3. …animation. I thought it would be funny to include the pelicans on bicycles as well (you know, https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle ). The linked animation is Opus 4.7 and it did a great job. It even added a little jump! Do you think…
    comment by prathje · 2026-04-29
  4. https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle/blob/main/README.m...
    comment by qingcharles · 2025-04-13 · in Nice things with SVG
  5. More recently, `gemini-exp-1206` did quite well [1]. [1]: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle/blob/main/README.m...
    comment by danielcorin · 2024-12-16 · in Pelicans on a bicycle
  6. …https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/gemini-exp-1206/ Claude 3.5 Sonnet is in second place: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle?tab=readme-ov-file...
  7. …that is I thought this model did very well, especially compared to others that I've tried: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle?tab=readme-ov-file...
    comment by simonw · 2024-11-28 · in QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
  8. For comparison, this is what other models produce: https://github.com/simonw/pelican-bicycle/blob/main/README.m...
    comment by tethys · 2024-11-28 · in QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM