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Grok 4.7 low, 362 seconds. Opus 5 high, 468. The browser was open the whole time. The sun landed first.

Yair Knijn · Sep 21, 2026 · 1 min

Opus 5 high, last frame. 468 seconds. The date reads 20 Aug 2029.
Opus 5 high, last frame. 468 seconds. The date reads 20 Aug 2029.

Same prompt as the last time, plus one rule. Save the sun first. Then one planet per save. The browser was already open on the file, so each save showed up on the right while the terminal kept going.

Grok 4.7 low wrote 439 lines in 362 seconds. The sun arrives alone, glowing. Mercury and Venus come next, then Earth and Mars, then Jupiter and Saturn, and the last save draws the orbits and the names.

Opus 5 high wrote 328 lines in 468 seconds. Ten saves, and the terminal says so. The last frame has the rings, a trail behind each planet, and a date that reads 20 Aug 2029. You can pause it, change the speed, and jump back to today.

The tape is Grok first, then Opus. Terminal on the left, the page on the right.

The earlier high attempt never saved a file. This one did. Low was fast and the orrery works. Opus was slow and the orrery is fuller. I counted a run only when index.html was on disk.

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