The pelican test: a daily image prompt to spot model quality drops

lxfater · x · 2026-09-11

Developer lxfater shares a trick to detect model "dumbing down": ask the model to draw a pelican riding a bicycle, and track how the output changes over time. Such composition-heavy prompts serve as a quick daily probe of a model's capability shifts.

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