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sandcat_ 3 hours ago

Yes, but the original purpose of the benchmark (simonw, please correct me if I'm wrong!) was to test whether new models were good at novel problem solving. Things they haven't been trained on. So yes, getting better at generating SVGs is great news (and it seems they have been) but this particular benchmark still strikes me as largely worthless now, unless SVGs happen to be what you care about in particular when a new model drops.

Instead, it feels like a more appropriate benchmark for the original purpose would be to come up with new, novel problems each time, and compare across all models (including previous ones).

Throwing my hat in the ring: Generate a pelican shaped crossword where all the clues are related to bicycles.

(Haiku 4.5: https://imgur.com/a/N112Nxo, I'm trying some others but it's very slow! Opus has been at it for about 20 minutes.)

TomatoCo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I've mostly been running LLMs on my own hardware so the phrase "been at it for about 20 minutes" gave me pause. My first instinct was to ask "but on what hardware?" but I suppose one advantage of closed models is that there's a somewhat-consistent cognitive-effort-to-time ratio.

sandcat_ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Fair, I don’t know if this helps but it was Opus 4.8 (high effort) via Claude Desktop, but through my org’s LLM gateway so hard to compare really. But it’s usually pretty quick.

(don’t tell my boss.)