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Interesting. I tried this with 3.5 Sonnet and it got it on the first attempt, using CSS transformations to specify the angle of the hour hand.

It failed, even with chain-of-thought prompting, when I asked for an SVG image, because it didn't realise it needed to be careful when converting the angle of the hour hand to Cartesian coordinates. When prompted to pay extra attention to that, it succeeds again.

I would assume models with chain-of-thought prompting baked in would perform better on the first attempt even at an SVG.

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croes 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Because your image is code.

Try something that outputs pixel.

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kqr 8 hours ago | parent [-]

What does it even mean to "output pixel"? The SVG format can be displayed with pixels, as can TARGA, JPEG, PNG, PostScript, and many others. Which format do you expect it to do, and why is that specific format the benchmark? Did your nephew produce the correct JPEG bytes in a minute?

Surely you don't expect a language model to move a child's hands and arms to produce the same pencil strokes. It would be the "do submarines swim like fishes" mistake again.

	▲	croes 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is a difference when the image is created as jpg, png etc. Because those are based on image training data. There is a bias in that images for showing 10:10 because it’s deemed the most aesthetic look.