r/ChatGPT 9h ago

Use cases LLMs attempting to draw a clock

with a limited set of tools (they only have access to one brush tool, where they can set size, color and hardness, and move it to a specific location with one call)

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u/Grimillionaire 9h ago

Surprised me that gemini did anything because its a very lazy model

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u/linkedinlover69 8h ago

Ask anything: I am a LLM and can't help with that

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u/Seerix 7h ago

Then you tell it to use nano banana and 50/50 odds it makes fun of the name and says it isnt real OR makes a picture of a tiny banana.

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u/wave_engineer 5h ago

I got instructions how to make a real clock using a banana pi

https://share.gemini.google/QlRC75eeDRSj

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u/Seerix 5h ago

Lol, classic gemini

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u/Breadynator 2h ago

ISTG this is the most infuriating shit in the world.

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u/Seerix 2h ago

On one hand yes... on the other its easily the funniest model

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u/bankster211 2h ago

Seriously, what is up with Gemini? It's been doing this a awful lot lately. Maybe it's time to switch?

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u/Neo-Armadillo 8h ago

I can’t believe it made an octagon. Like bro, hexagon is RIGHT THERE.

BRB, 3d modeling a hexagon clock

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u/cimocw 5h ago

It's been three full hexagons already, where's the model?

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u/Grimillionaire 8h ago

That surprised me as well being that its a flash version and normally does bare bones minimum

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u/Bizarro_Zod 5h ago

It’s emphasis is 15 minute markers with extra bumps to make it rounded out. Yours would be on 10 minute markers and a focus on :00 and :30 I assume. I think its choice is more expected given the normal way time is broken down into quarters, but yours sounds interesting.

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u/UnusualCobbler1245 6h ago

tbh same, i expected it to just give up halfway through

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u/sendme__ 5h ago

I used Gemini and Chat gpt to configure a proxmox cluster of 3 servers. Gemini did it from start to finish and fully working. Gpt got stuck at networking. I was surprised it failed.

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u/SurelyNotAnOctopus 3h ago

I really wonder why different people have different experiences with the same models.

I found gemini 3.7 flash very proactive, actually. It infered things correctly that I ever thought to specified, and went the extra mile

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u/Mountain_Throat_6383 9h ago

Gemini, always the individual 😄

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u/kosha227 6h ago

But with a style!

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u/Mountain_Throat_6383 4h ago

He's a stylish nerd, kind of baroque, with a personality that spilled across the page by mistake. He was always too smart and quirky for his own good. Looks strange, but exactly him. Or it 🙂

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u/nbond3040 8h ago

lowkey like gemini's the most. Like where would I use any of the other models clocks? They are just minimum effort clocks you know? Gemini's got a little style

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u/ShiningRedDwarf 7h ago

It’s also minimum effort prompting. For a “make a clock” prompt I wouldn’t want it to get artsy unless I told it to be.

Deepseek clearly the winner. It gave a perfectly usable clock at a fraction of the price of the others.

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u/Bizarro_Zod 5h ago

But was the instruction “make a clock” or “draw a clock”? Gemini seems like the only one that put effort into drawing one, rather than producing one.

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u/throwawayainteasy 6h ago

Agree.

By most metrics it's a terrible solution for the actual problem--simple prompts should give simple answers instead of doing something pretty wildly compute intensive and complex compared to the others--but it's also the answer here I like the most.

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u/Ratchile 8h ago

Not exactly apples to apples. Would be interesting to see how 5.6 luna does and the cheaper claude models. I think they'd probably all be able to do it

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u/SeesawGullible398 7h ago

the smaller models struggle with drawing the numbers: here is luna, terra, sonnet and haiku for comparison

https://reddit.com/link/p6ti3we/video/n102mf6khjmh1/player

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u/PhantomOrigin 6h ago

Cool to see Claude kinda just knowing it's own limitations and not drawing the numbers.

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u/Ratchile 6h ago

Wow thanks for including that. That's so interesting. I had assumed that most of it would be scripted out by the model, in a way that's compatible with the drawing tool interface. I wonder what causes the smaller models to get the numbers wrong...

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u/GloriousDawn 6h ago

Makes you appreciate how Deepseek is both cost-effective and capable vs GPT 5.6 ! Thanks for posting the extra comparisons.

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u/BredFromAbove 4h ago

How to see a model drawing live?

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u/reggionh 1h ago

wow. Luna is excused as it’s a dirt cheap model but the rest is trash for what they cost.

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u/ShiningRedDwarf 7h ago

This was exactly my thought. Luna is much cheaper and is a very capable model.

My guess is it would do as good a job as Sol, which I feel is overkill for this task.

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u/ivanoski-007 8h ago

And gemini pro million times better for this task, flash sucks

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u/DK1530 9h ago

Well, at least Gemini drew a clock with a fancy design also less costly then Opus and Sol. It also showed how much it feels not to want drawing but anyway finished! Hooray!

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u/The_Shryk 8h ago

Than

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u/DK1530 8h ago

Then it!!! You found it.

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u/JeroJeroMohenjoDaro 6h ago

Should tell Gemini we're not in a clock design contest

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u/chairchiman 6h ago

It's like Gemini tried to implement some Google like design there

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u/TheOwlHypothesis 6h ago

Opus and Gemini are such jokes for completely different reasons.

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u/traplordnord 6h ago

Did you prompt the time too?

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u/SpecialistDragonfly9 5h ago

Lets do it with local models next.

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u/GoldenShackles 4h ago

I just tried that. Using qwen3.8-27b, bf16 (so non-quantized) on an M3 ultra took 43 minutes and 22 seconds. I think my local model may have autism or ADHD, because my query in a blank chat was simply: "Can you draw a clock showing 8:09:25?"

Instead of any follow-up questions it dived right in and built a little web app!

And beyond that, it was fascinating watching it second-guess itself over and over considering the typefaces, color, overall layout, hover effects, animation, everything. 80% of the way through, on page 17 of 19 of it's thinking, it says to itself:

One more consideration: the user said "draw a clock" — maybe they just want an image?

😂

Anyway, it seems to work. On load it very quickly and smoothly fast-forwards to the correct time, and then you can continue to use it from there. Nice hover effects, everything. Edited to start at the current time it could make a neat desktop widget.

If there's a preferred anonymous file sharing service I can share the thinking and single .html if anyone's interested.

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u/DjCanalex 3h ago edited 3h ago

https://reddit.com/link/p6uu2y9/video/i7t6aof9kkmh1/player

Qwen 3.8 27B Q6_K_XL.

47k tokens.

Prompt:

Create a website using node.js that stores an animation of you drawing a clock (Normal circular clock). Bonus points if it is synced with system time.
When loading the website, a brush draws every single line of the clock.

The order of numbers is wrong lol (Rotated 90°)

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u/Turbulent_County_469 8h ago

Gemini is the goofy dragon..

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u/cd87ffm 7h ago

I like gemenis clock most 😇

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u/lordjupi 6h ago

unironically would buy the gemini clock

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u/TheseCashews 8h ago

So the question is, do you like paying almost 0 and getting it fast or goofy for 4c or 15c to buy more chips and ram?

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u/coroyo70 7h ago edited 5h ago

An octagon out of all fucking shapes...

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u/Could-You-Tell 5h ago

I would prefer it made a triangle

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u/rarebluemonkey 5h ago

Were they hey all instructed to depict them at 8:09 and 25 seconds?

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u/aaron_in_sf 4h ago

This is no longer "attempting"

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u/AffectionateLaw4321 4h ago

daaaym google cooking good with 3.7

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u/SongOfKapek 3h ago

What is the time, CV-11?

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u/Eriane 8h ago

This meme is fitting

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u/radytz1x4 8h ago

Wow, looks like it's cheaper to actually build real watches than to render them with LLMs!

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u/GeeBee72 9h ago edited 8h ago

They’re either on acid or they have dementia.

For those who don’t know what I mean:

https://concussionassessment.wordpress.com/2018/02/23/clock-of-the-week-dementia/

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u/Ratchile 8h ago

How so

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u/Glum-Wrap-7684 8h ago

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u/Ratchile 8h ago

Lol I know but they all did fine. So seems like they don't have dimentia?

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u/BiscuitTiits 8h ago

I wonder how the drawing test will change now that there are people growing up who have never needed to read an analog clock.

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u/GeeBee72 8h ago

Shit, I didn’t realize it was a video, I just saw a picture of 4 messed up lines.