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  "articleBody": "> [wren6991](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49979658): The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.\n\nOK well I couldn't resist this one:\n\n```\nllm -m claude-opus-5.5 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\nllm -m gpt-6.1-sol 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\nllm -m gemini-3.8-flash 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\nllm -m mistral/mistral-large-4 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\n```\n\nDefault reasoning levels for each: [https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F18c9f7fc3b3705cf88514cb9170ec246)\n",
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  "content_html": "<blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49979658\">wren6991</a>: The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>OK well I couldn't resist this one:</p>\n<pre><code><span class=\"code-snippet\">llm -m claude-opus-5.5 &#39;Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars&#39;\nllm -m gpt-6.1-sol &#39;Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars&#39;\nllm -m gemini-3.8-flash &#39;Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars&#39;\nllm -m mistral/mistral-large-4 &#39;Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars&#39;\n</span></code></pre>\n<p>Default reasoning levels for each: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F18c9f7fc3b3705cf88514cb9170ec246\">https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...</a></p>\n",
  "content_markdown": "> [wren6991](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977979#49979658): The benchmark is saturated. Frontier models are tested with an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars.\n\nOK well I couldn't resist this one:\n\n```\nllm -m claude-opus-5.5 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\nllm -m gpt-6.1-sol 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\nllm -m gemini-3.8-flash 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\nllm -m mistral/mistral-large-4 'Generate an SVG of an armadillo in fishnet tights jaywalking on Mars'\n```\n\nDefault reasoning levels for each: [https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F18c9f7fc3b3705cf88514cb9170ec246)\n",
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