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Of course, the sun again. Everyone knows that a pelican can't ride a bicycle without a sun in the frame and can only go right.

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I wonder if we'll start to see pelicans like a mascot of sorts. You could have a pelican pin on your backpack.

> "What's up with the pelican?"

Well you see in the early days of LLMs we wanted a fun way to test new models, and there was this blog, ...

Will Smith eating spaghetti is the OG benchmark

Do people really want to be seen making using AI part of their personality?

Several people I work with have adopted its mannerisms unironically. Then again we don't exactly hang out outside of work.

Like most things, it depends. Think of the web devs of yore with MacBook Pros and Angular and React and Vim stickers stuck aside their glowing Apple logo (no longer a thing unfortunately). IMO having a pelican pin would be more of the same - advertising you are a developer of some kind. An attempt to bridge the gap to a stranger who might be into the same thing. The tech changes, the desire to signal things doesn't. The usual Exceptions(tm) apply of course.

Yeah, but Vim is cool.

Vim is indeed cool. So is mg. I'd argue so is having my graphics card performing work on my behalf.

"Do people really want to be seen making using Java part of their personality?"

The grass too, everyone knows bikes ride on grass.

I think models consider this composition as a meme at this point. They don’t generate a pelican on a bicycle, they generate “the pelican on the bicycle”. A well-known composition with the sun, the grass and occasionally a scarf.

The medium thinking effort one doesn't have a sun at all?

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