Example prompt:

Haiku 5.5 is SO MUCH better at drawing pelicans riding bicycles than Claude Haiku 4.5, released almost a year ago and costing 10x more. Here's Haiku 4.5's attempt:

I vaguely remember that! I liked being able to navigate between lines easier using the keyboard h

Oh no... I think the default answer may differ if you are talking about disks or RAM!

I've called this the 'The Kobayashi Maru' interview question for programmers. There's no "right" answer only painful trade-offs which makes it very revealing.

I need to decide if 1KB means 1,000 bytes or 1,024 bytes in all of my software I was leaning 1,024 but it looks like macOS and Windows both define KB as 1,000 these days I want whatever people are most likely to understand (I do not think most people know what KiB or MiB means)

Do you think there's any chance at all someone deep within Apple might reconsider and mark it as not-deprecated? To use a Claude-ism it's increasingly "load-bearing" these days

Do you think it makes sense to coach them in learning how to build interactive prototypes?

I mean yeah, this is a stupid way to add numbers I did run this on a computer on my desk at home though, so it's not a great example of wildly irresponsible power usage

Help me understand why that is

Is your distrust of reasoning traces based on the fact that the proprietary vendors deliberately obfuscate theirs and turn them into summaries? The open weight models make it much more clear what's actually going on

Honestly not sure if there's something we disagree on here

Sure. Still works though.