Some food for thought when designing benchmarks...

So, here's a little computer-use (visual) comparison between GPT-5.6 Astra and Qwen3.8 Max.

The task here was to recreate the image in the center using the Paint UI.

Super interesting how the two different LLMs+Harnesses approached this totally differently by default.

I.e., Astra tried to approach this by drawing and layering geometric shapes. Qwen approached this pixel by pixel. (Of course, the pixel-by-pixel result looks closer to the original, it's essentially a low-res version of that by nature.)

So, the Qwen-generated image would surely score higher in the sense that it's closer to the original.

But I wouldn’t conclude from this example that one LLM generalizes better than the other on other tasks. Also, I wouldn't say Qwen has better compute-use capabilities or better visual understanding than Astra.

But it highlights an interesting point about how slippery benchmarks are when they only compare final results.