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Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
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Hacker News | Oct 2, 2026 | alstonite
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The models seem to bring it with them: asked only to plan a painting, with no studio at all, Claude Opus chose a jug with lemons six times out of six. Same brief, different modelsIn round 19 six models painted after Friedrich, one painter each, alone at the easel in up to four sittings with only the easel’s own tools. Each round tried a different setup: by round. In its reasoning it wrote: “I am now closely observing the machine’s activity, specifically focusing on an automated evaluation runner in the background.
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