Looking terrible isn't nessesarily a bad thing. The pelican is heavily pre trained now. Having a crappy pelican means you didn't try to juke the stats.
Apologies for not taking the time to find it, but there was a post that tried to determine if the pelican was benchmaxxed across a bunch of models by comparing it to other SVGs, and found that it wasn't at all.
This "no, Virginia, they aren't pelicanmaxxing" article is what broodbucket is probably thinking of: <a href="https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html" rel="nofollow">https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html
In any case, pelicanmaxxing comments without any further proof or evidence probably fall under the "Please don't post shallow dismissals" guideline.
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Pelicans for Pro: <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F53688c39d37bcbf0cb1a98781c277cdb" rel="nofollow">https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
brcmthrowaway · · focus · HN ↗
Qwen3.8-27b pelican was amazing on Mac.
<a href="https://www.nudgehost.com/dpjn3uwe" rel="nofollow">https://www.nudgehost.com/dpjn3uwe
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In any case, pelicanmaxxing comments without any further proof or evidence probably fall under the "Please don't post shallow dismissals" guideline.