Simon Willison - GoKawiil

Blogger Simon Willison examines why LLM-generated pelican SVGs share a common visual style

Simon Willison analyzed outputs from his recurring 'generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' benchmark test, noting that SVGs produced by different large language models tend to converge on similar visual characteristics. He compiled original SVGs from his test runs using each model's highest reasoning setting that returned a valid SVG.

arcfu.com · 2026-10-14

TypeSafe's Jev model disputed over 'calibrated probability' claims

A technical blog post examines TypeSafe's new Jev system, a 'System One Model' that converts unstructured input into typed decisions with attached probability scores instead of generating text. The author argues Jev is genuinely useful because it works without requiring training data, unlike a fine-tuned BERT model, but disputes TypeSafe's claim that its RLCD training method produces probabilities that are truly calibrated across any dataset.

alexmolas.com · 2026-09-23