[lifeisgood99]

The SVG created for the first prompt is valid but is a garbage image.

[bentcorner]

In general I've had poor results with LLMs generating pictures using text instructions (in my case I've tried to get them to generate pictures using plots in KQL). They work but the pictures are very very basic.

I'd be interested for any LLM emitting any kind of text-to-picture instructions to get results that are beyond a kindergartner-cardboard-cutout levels of art.

[pizza]

I do with Claude: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351796#42355665

[mycall]

I've had success with LLMs producing mermaid.js or three.js output but that is a different use case.

[simonw]

That's why I use the SVG pelican riding a bicycle thing as a benchmark: it's a deliberately absurd and extremely difficult task.

[chen_dev]

Amazon Nova models:

https://gist.github.com/uschen/38fc65fa7e43f5765a584c6cd24e1...

[simonw]

Yeah, it didn't do very well on that one. The best I've had from a local model there was from QwQ: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/qwq/

[refulgentis]

For context, pelican riding a bicycle: https://imgur.com/a/2nhm0XM

Copied SVG from gist into figma, added dark gray #444444 background, exported as PNG 1x.