WHAT THE F*CK.
Claude Opus 5.5 took its own smooth white ball and turned it into this.
i gave it one picture of a robot porcupine fish. the first build missed it completely, so it graded itself against the picture and went again.
→ first build: a smooth ball with dots. now: a lattice, a ring of armour round every spine socket
→ first build: 1,146 parts. now: 2,094
→ first build: 0.22 of the picture's dark share. now: 0.93
→ now it puffs up, fires its spines out in a SPINE BURST and snaps them back
i tried the same lattice in Blender twice. the code version won both times.
full build and the upgrade loop in the article below 👇
my own claude skill is starting to scare me.
i gave it one picture of a robot peacock spider. it dropped 4,002 parts on the floor and then put every single one back.
the body goes together first. then the legs snap on while the rest of the parts still lie in rows like a flat-pack kit.
then the power comes on and the fan opens behind it, 7 eyespots ringed in light.
the 6 eyes come on. the shell opens on its reactor. at the end it does its dance.
my first build was a white toy: 2 checks out of 20 passed. two rounds against the picture later, 13 pass and none fail.
6 robots in 3 days and i still haven't found one it can't put back together.
the method that fixed it is in the article ↓
my own claude skill is starting to scare me.
i gave it one picture of a robot peacock spider. it dropped 4,002 parts on the floor and then put every single one back.
the body goes together first. then the legs snap on while the rest of the parts still lie in rows like a flat-pack kit.
then the power comes on and the fan opens behind it, 7 eyespots ringed in light.
the 6 eyes come on. the shell opens on its reactor. at the end it does its dance.
my first build was a white toy: 2 checks out of 20 passed. two rounds against the picture later, 13 pass and none fail.
6 robots in 3 days and i still haven't found one it can't put back together.
the method that fixed it is in the article ↓