GPT 5.6 Draws and Codes on a Mac
dreamwieber · x · 2026-07-16
[Replying to @dreamwieber] Someone connected GPT 5.6 to a Macintosh emulator and taught it to draw the outline of Susan Kare's famous "woodblock" illustration in MacPaint.
It took a few rounds for the model to find a natural tracing method, and the "paint bucket" tool remained a tough challenge. The post also notes that not only could it draw, but it eventually wrote a screensaver program on the emulated Mac, yielding quite impressive results.
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