Six frontier AIs design egg-drop capsules; Claude Opus 5.5 survives 20 feet
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit real-world engineering contest had six frontier AIs design and 3D-print egg-protecting capsules, then drop-tested them:
- Claude Opus 5.5's capsule survived a 20-foot drop without a crack
- GPT-6 Astra failed at 8 feet
- Gemini 4 Argon, Grok 4.7, Qwen 3.8-Max, and Muse Wonder all failed at 4 feet
A rare head-to-head where model output must survive real physics — Claude again dominates a hands-on engineering challenge.
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