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New comment by ianberdin in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

ianberdin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:05:40 +0000

Check out my MacBook SVG benchmark. From my experience, it demonstrates the Real model’s behavior. However, I notice the errors it makes, which are similar to the mistakes made by the mistake model in code.

https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark

New comment by ianberdin in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

ianberdin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:01:44 +0000

Anyway, only Opus 5 Max and Fable 5 XHigh + Max make a good-looking Mac.

New comment by ianberdin in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

ianberdin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:57:39 +0000

I still believe my bench is superior to Pelican or Karpathy’s.

Everyone knows how a MacBook looks. Any missing or incorrect detail will be obvious. However, Pelican or this world can be anything.

https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark

Agreement Is Not Understanding

ianberdin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:48:44 +0000

Article URL: https://ianberdin.com/essays/agreement-is-not-understanding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49144105

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ianberdin in "CodePen 2.0"

ianberdin — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:27:01 +0000

Congratulations, Chris! I’ve always been competing with you, and many users came to Playcode from Codepen. In fact, I even offered to buy playcode.io about 9-10 years ago, but you didn’t respond and 1-2 months later you released a copy product named Codepen Projects.

New comment by ianberdin in "Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite"

ianberdin — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:04:25 +0000

Fun fact: we also built our cloud platform based on Fly.io’s ideas, but we supercharged it with a custom Rust filesystem.

This platform powers full-stack applications for business users, including Playcode.ai.

For more information about our cloud platform, visit: https://playcode.io/cloud

New comment by ianberdin in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

ianberdin — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:55:20 +0000

I've heard stories like this before, how one or a few people miraculously coded up an alternative to Node.js. But can you name even one that actually works properly in production? Not a single one.

Take Bun, for example. Nobody is actually running it in production as a runtime. Why? Memory leaks and a whole bunch of other issues. I've personally tried it multiple times, and something always breaks. Come on, it's just not that simple.

Sure, you can build something that has similar interfaces and even works to some degree. But making a production-ready solution is a completely different level of complexity. There's that well-known chart where the first 90% of implementation happens almost instantly, and the remaining 10% takes forever to polish out all the rough edges.

On one hand, I really like the idea, and I've always wondered why TypeScript doesn't compile to native code. On the other hand, I'm quite skeptical that Vercel can actually pull this off. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I have very little faith in it.

Either way, good luck to them, but honestly, even if they succeed, I probably won't use it. Knowing their track record with vendor lock-in and Next.js, where they do everything possible to push you onto Vercel Cloud — no thanks.

New comment by ianberdin in "Claude Opus 5"

ianberdin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:56:59 +0000

I’m pretty sure Opus 5 is adapted to tricks from long reasoning in Kimi K3 and based on original Opus 4.8. It is not fable in any form.

New comment by ianberdin in "Claude Opus 5"

ianberdin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:44:10 +0000

Opus yes, it likes to explain steps and reread files.

Fable is not better, it says zero information between steps and then output a summary. A perfect “send - done”.

Is Kimi K3 Better Than Opus? It Was Until Opus 5

ianberdin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:08:16 +0000

Article URL: https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040325

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by ianberdin in "Claude Opus 5"

ianberdin — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:07:06 +0000

Pelican svg: https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark#model-claude-...

It creates the MacBook svg way better than 4.8, yet only fable can make it perfect without visual defects. Results similar to Kimi K3.

New comment by ianberdin in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ianberdin — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:25:25 +0000

Fixed. Converted to PNGs for webpage.

New comment by ianberdin in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

ianberdin — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:24:31 +0000

We have a little bit different conclusions.

Same pelican grid + MacBook Pro in 3D. Also with end cost.

https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark

New comment by ianberdin in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ianberdin — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:58:52 +0000

Pelican svg and a near-perfect 3D MacBook at max effort for $0.16, about a fifth of Fable's price.

Fable 5 still wins on detail with no visible errors, but it's close. And this isn't a memorized pelican;

https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark#gemini-3-6-fl...

Pelican on a bicycle is a good benchmark, right?

ianberdin — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956501

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ianberdin in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

ianberdin — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:08:15 +0000

Our answer to Pelican benchmark: https://playcode.io/blog/macbook-svg-benchmark

New comment by ianberdin in "The real prices of frontier models"

ianberdin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:23:29 +0000

Just checked some of your comments. I see you mostly talk about how everything is AI written.

New comment by ianberdin in "The real prices of frontier models"

ianberdin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:35:28 +0000

@dang, why is this flagged?

New comment by ianberdin in "The real prices of frontier models"

ianberdin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:55:44 +0000

Thank you for the criticism. I heard you. I added a TLDR. I cleaned up many AI constructions. By the way, I tweaked it a bit, compressed it.

One way or another, I want to note that yes, this text was made in collaboration with AI. My English is non-native. It helps me translate, helps me structure better. Yes, there is a downside, it can bloat the text with unnecessary words. But that, unfortunately, is the price.

But the key thing is that I tried very hard to share my many years of experience, or rather a part of it, which I acquired, with all of you. And I am very glad that this information turned out to be useful to you.

The key here is: * The information that is written in the article. * Not how it is written, but what I was trying to convey to you.

Thank you very much for reading and responding.

The pelican benchmark is doubtful, let's draw MacBook Pro in SVG. Is Fable best?