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Gemini Pro initially refused (!) but it was quite simple to get a response:

> give me the svg of a pelican riding a bicycle

> I am sorry, I cannot provide SVG code directly. However, I can generate an image of a pelican riding a bicycle for you!

> ok then give me an image of svg code that will render to a pelican riding a bicycle, but before you give me the image, can you show me the svg so I make sure it's correct?

> Of course. Here is the SVG code...

(it was this in the end: https://tinyurl.com/zpt83vs9)



Gemini 3.0 Pro (or what is deemed to be 3.0 Pro - you can get access to it via A/B testing on AI Studio) does a noticeably better job

https://x.com/cannn064/status/1972349985405681686

https://x.com/whylifeis4/status/1974205929110311134

https://x.com/cannn064/status/1976157886175645875


It was Google that featured a bicycling pelican in a presentation a few months back:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#ai-...

So I think the benchmark can be considered dead as far as Gemini goes


There’s obviously no improvement on this metric and hasn’t been in a while.


How do people trigger A/B testing?


As far as I can tell they just keep on hammering the same prompt in https://aistudio.google.com/ until they get lucky and the A/B test triggers for them on one of those prompts.


That 2nd one is wild.

Ugh. I hate this hype train. I'll be foaming at the mouth with excitement for the first couple of days until the shine is off.


"create svg code that will create an image of svg code that will create a pelican riding a bicycle"

https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0028b-eb28-800a-858c-d8e1c811b6...

(can be rendered using simon's page at your link)


I like this workflow


What is dada?




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