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tezza

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PM: hackernews (at) terrylurie DOT com

In spare time I make:

- https://epicwin.team - browser video games. Remote Teams and Solo

- https://generative-ai.review - Reviewing AI tools from a professional angle

- LLM London organiser

Based in London. Light inventor on the side of a regular day job

Any opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer.

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Side by side videos of Claude Fable vs. Opus 4.8 vs. ChatGPT 5.5

generative-ai.review
2 points·by tezza·le mois dernier·1 comments

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tezza
·il y a 7 heures·discuss
well i’ve come across it loads, especially 1/2) during REPL style build outs and 2/2) calling libraries and frameworks you are not yet familiar with.

perl another offender… is it a hash? is it an arrayref? over time you get it right, but by trial and error and looping. json suffers this too, arrays different from strings, different from numbers etc, but opaque until checked and liable to change
tezza
·avant-hier·discuss
Absolutely, the change in quality over time is a great yardstick.

Nice to see you did the quality level comparisons and did three passes.

I've been using that technique myself on my image gen reviews[1] and it also works well in presentations and for personal study.

[1] https://generative-ai.review/2025/12/beast-mode-activated-op...
tezza
·il y a 19 jours·discuss
I've just put GLM 5.2 through my __qualitative__ benchmark. I was quick enough to capture Claude Fable, so now you can compare GLM5.2 vs Claude Fable vs Opus 4.8 vs Chat GPT 5.5

https://generative-ai.review/2026/06/glm5-2-from-z-ai-vs-cla...

I've structured it side-by-side. You can clearly see where the private models excel, and where GLM 5.2 is still really good.
tezza
·le mois dernier·discuss
There are benchmarks if you want quantitative results. Mine is qualitative, and clearly billed as such. Comparison and contrast still possible.
tezza
·le mois dernier·discuss
check the backlinks[1][2] in the article before you start throwing around accusations. I am not (yet) a person that has advanced notice and access to models.

Fable just got announced and I did a rush out article because people are curious. I released the post mere hours afterwards and it takes time to create the output, slice into videos, make a wordpress article on top of taking my son to basketball training and eating dinner. I’m in London and this was all happening at 1am.

If you check the links my previous articles have all the juicy stuff you are criticising me for not having with little preparation.

How is a side by side direct comparison NOT precise?

[1] first in series from 2025: https://generative-ai.review/2025/05/vibe-coding-my-way-to-e... . This has all the background you are talking about in the Appendix

.

[2] https://generative-ai.review/2026/05/vibe-coding-my-way-to-e... . Second in series 2026 has a side by side table of what changed. This is what is possible with more than a few hours advanced warning.
tezza
·le mois dernier·discuss
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tezza
·le mois dernier·discuss
I did a qualitative side-by-side of Claude Fable vs Opus 4.8 vs ChatGPT 5.5

https://generative-ai.review/2026/06/claude-fable-rush-test-...

I get them to make a 3D explainer animation. You can clearly see Fable is much improved on both Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5.

Better Textures . A nifty camera follow . Humans rendered better . ... see for yourselves
tezza
·le mois dernier·discuss
I did a rush review of Claude Fable in my benchmark test and compared it to Opus 4.8 and ChatGPT 5.5.

Side by side videos to compare and contrast.

The 3D viewers are also available run right in your browser.
tezza
·le mois dernier·discuss
MidJourney public discord channel.

The amount of masterpiece level art flowing per hour was astounding.

For every one doing a ninja waifu, there were ten doing art from davinci and leonardo crossed with hockney.

it almost gave you art sickness
tezza
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
The John Snow Pump… where they sealed it up to stop Cholera is very small.

Also Novelty Automation (WC1R 4AX) is a tiny interactive museum/wharf end arcade which has some very intricate mechanical entertainments. Some are tiny.
tezza
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I've rushed out my standardised quality check images for gpt-image-2:

https://generative-ai.review/2026/04/rush-openai-gpt-image-2...

I've done a series over all the OpenAI models.

gpt-image-2 has a lot more action, especially in the Apple Cart images.
tezza
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
2004: https://archive.org/details/britannica-2004

2009: https://archive.org/details/britannica-multimedia-dvd-2009-d...

2012: https://archive.org/details/britannica-dvd_20230709

2013: https://archive.org/details/encyclopedia-britannica-dvd-2013
tezza
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Wait until they find out how many people place perfectly timed horse racing bets on the winning horse, JUST before the start of the race. 100% of them knew to back the winning horse
tezza
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
How is this different to system tuning parameters in Linux /proc, FreeBsd, Windows Registry, Firefox about:config, sockopt, ioctl, postgres?

Zillions of options. Some important, some not
tezza
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
> take part of the color space and map it uniformly to a different part of the color space

fyi Affinity Photo has recolor and hue filters that will do just that.

I used it for my video game art.
tezza
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
They were Thunderstruck?
tezza
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
when you make a program that has a random seed, many LLMs choose

   42
as the seed value rather than zero. A nice nod to Hitchhikers’
tezza
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
My latest game BossBattle[1] (html5, have a play) uses AI for graphics, some strobe effects, a C64 loading screen shader.

I have decided to lean in to it and I will document all the places I use AI in the game on my blog[2]. Not everything works, notably 3D assets[3] and sound effects.

There is a lot of human content… i paid for a lot out of my own pocket and have limited budget. It started in 2021 before chatgpt. LLMs cannot do everything and that’s not the purpose.

Generative AI makes me as an solo indie dev able to make the game. Without the AI the game wouldn’t exist

[1] http://epicwin.team/play/solo/BossBattle/ - (public beta) .

[2] https://generative-ai.review .

[3] https://generative-ai.review/2025/08/3d-assets-made-by-genai...
tezza
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I put a link to the LLM session at the end of the commit, and prefix with POH: if I wrote it by hand.

POH = Plain Old Human

Easy to achieve.

Why NOT include a link back? Why deprive yourself of information?
tezza
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Terminals are text. Text adds features missing from gui namely:

* Ad Hoc

requirements change and terminal gives ultimate empty workbench flexibility. awesome for tasks you never new you had until that moment.

* Precision

run precisely what you want, when you want it. you are not constrained by gui UX limits.

* Pipeline

cat file.txt | perl/awk/sed/jq | tee output.result

* Equal Status

everything is text so you can combine clipboard, files, netcat output, curl output and then you can transform (above) and save. whatever you like in whatever form you like, named whatever you like.