This looks like a toy. It's actually the meanest little vision eval I've built.
The task: look at an emoji image, then repaint it on a 16×16 grid, one pixel at a time. Just the model, a tiny canvas, and up to 2000 brushstrokes.
What I didn't expect was the personalities.
> some models REGRET a stroke and go back to repaint it
> some get stuck looping the same little patch over and over, like they're trying to animate it
> some are calm little surgeons and just nail it first try
And the task is genuinely mean: it has to see the image, crush it down to 256 cells, then decide what's actually load-bearing:
> the tears on 😂 but still keep the smile
> the horn on 🦄
> the antenna on 🤖
and keep the soul of it with almost no resolution to spare.
5 models. 7 emojis. Best of 5 runs each. Side by side.
Who's your winner?