Claude's art skills leveled up: Reddit user retests a year later
IllustriousWorld823 · reddit · 2026-09-29
A Reddit user retested Claude's image generation nearly a year apart: new pieces made with Sonnet 5.5, plus a bonus finale from Opus 5.5. The model even highlighted its own details—adding a magnitude legend in the bottom-left corner and correctly rendering the orbit ring passing behind the planet, noting it rebuilt that twice to get it right. The author was struck by how much the models have grown, while feeling earlier art had a certain whimsy and colorfulness.
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