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by simonw 19 days ago
First model I've tried that gave me back HTML with a "Change Pelican Color" button: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/hy3-preview-pel...

(Transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/c2a0d8ecd3056a2681319eae8fc3f...)

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But…and I’m sure I’m not alone here…that is a snowman, and what it is on is not a bicycle.

What do we think we are doing with this life?

Haha does it get bonus points for the extra button, or does it fail because html != SVG?
Any bonus points for the color sre immediately subtracted because the "animate wheels" button leaves the wheels stationary and makes the sun rotate.
I wonder if it is actually animating the wheels as well, but just managed to match up the spin rate to the gap size.
Hy3 is a Scandinavian model, and is leaking that out via Norse mythology about Sol being a wheel!
That depends on the perspective. If you're on the Sun, the wheels rotate around you.
Judging from the dotted trajectory lines, it even "thought" about giving the bike a wobble.

(But maybe that's just my interpretation based on something else going wrong in the animation)

ROTFL
It actually rendered an SVG inline in the HTML page. I just tested the SVG and it renders itself just fine, including colors. So, tbh, I'd say the task has been properly achieved.
Maybe I'm just extremely nitpicky, but I'd consider that a failure, as the prompt is asking for SVG, not HTML.

Bit like asking for CSS and then getting a HTML file back with the CSS embedded, that was not what I was asking for!

Welcome to the ambiguities of natural language
...the animate wheels button makes sun start to spin