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Oh god the ghibli ai art yellow is infecting the pelicans too now
Are the pelicans still a useful benchmark at all?

I would guess that

1) they're probably in the training data, and

2) models have gotten too good at this task to compare them meaningfully (I tried doing a blind test and couldn't reliably tell 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Terra apart at reasoning levels that approximately match in cost)

>> Are the pelicans still a useful benchmark at all?

If you are using these models for software development, then I ask you this question…… when you are interviewing job candidates to join your team, do you ask them to write a program to draw pelicans?

Thus you have your answer.

counterpoint https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/openai-pelicans...

look at the bicycle not the pelican. only astra low made a bicycle that resembles a functional bicycle in the low/none category. luna needs xhigh to make a bike. the legs are still wrong, on the wrong side of the bike, in all but like four of the outputs.