Frontier models race Tom Cruise's canyon in Top Gun — Claude Opus refused to fly
shekitup · x · 2026-11-12
A fun experiment had frontier models each write code to fly a jet through the canyon from Top Gun: Maverick, with 10 test flights to debug and one shot at the real course.
Results were dramatic: Opus refused to fly a warplane (typical), Fable and Carbon struggled, and Astra pulled off a surprise. Equal parts model benchmark and AI meme material.
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