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Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by jjcm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:27PM (#49804947)
Image->HTML tests:

Design: https://image.non.io/78795662-8bfc-4e14-8d72-3738392aa6b3.we...

Opus 5.5's output: https://html.non.io/annui-opus/

Overall it follows image designs quite well, but it did ignore asks to animate page transitions. Additionally it's the least performant of the ones I've built with Astra/Grok/MiMo, despite using a lot of the same code. I'd rate it just below Astra in capability, but still solidly second place.

For comparison with other drops this week + current #1:

Astra: https://html.non.io/annui/

MiMo: https://html.non.io/annui-mimo/

Grok 4.7: https://html.non.io/Annui-grok/

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by copperx on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:49PM (#49805330)
By any chance did you tried Deepseek 4 or 4.1 and GLM 5.3 or flash?
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by jjcm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:23PM (#49805875)
I've done GLM 5.3 previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295420

Worth noting though that GLM 5.3 isn't multi-modal, so it doesn't have a vision layer. It is quite clever and hacks around it pretty effectively however. I'm running a deepseek 4 build now and will reply shortly with that.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by copperx on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:52PM (#49806260)
Awesome. You have a really neat benchmark.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by fr33k3y on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:10PM (#49808160)
glm5.3-flash is multimodal and I\ve been testing it against opus over the last ~10 days and it does very well at a fraction of the opus price...
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by jjcm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:27PM (#49808353)
I should give it a spin. 5.3 wasn't multimodal, but it looks like their flash release was. Thanks for the tip.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by copperx on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @06:20PM (#49809038)
Deepseek 4.1 is also multimodal BTW
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by naet on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:30PM (#49805010)
What is your workflow for making these?
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by jjcm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:21PM (#49805837)
The designs are outputs from my own site. This has an overview of the process: https://diffui.ai/learn/new-site

The gist of it though is I take a prompt, expand it into a json blob specifying structure/palette/positioning of elements/etc, feed that into a diffusion model to output a few choices. Once I lock in a choice I take the pixel output + json blob and use it as input into followup pages. The json helps preserve the brand across multiple pages.

Once I have all the inputs I take their corresponding image+json blobs and feed them into an agent to create a web implementation.

For image models, diffui currently uses gpt-image-2.5, mai-image-2.6, and very, very rarely a post-trained version of flux 2 dev I've made for web design, though that one will be deprecated soon.

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by bonoboTP on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:40PM (#49809769)
Great, I opened several of these in new tabs in Firefox and the entire browser froze and I had to kill it. Can't tell you which one caused it though. I have plenty of RAM also.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 by jjcm on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:32PM (#49810562)
Interesting. I just opened all 3 on a fresh install of firefox with no issues - can I ask what OS / do you have any js disabled / do you have webgl disabled?