Failure types

Every failed check in Three Shots gets one of these, so the same mistake made by two models on two different tasks ends up in the same place. 76 of 144 results carry at least one.

So which number should you read? How many models a type has appeared in. One model failing one way tells you about that model, and several models failing the same way on one task tells you about the task. But several models failing the same way across different tasks is the closest thing here to a jagged-frontier finding, though a new release can disprove it overnight.

The map

Each cell is how many of that model's runs failed a check this way, out of its runs on the tasks where this failure has happened at all. A grey 0 means it was tested and never failed this way, and a dot means it never ran those tasks. A column filled all the way down is a failure that survived a change of model.

modellabellingphysical-plausibilitycompletenesspart-ordertopologygeographic-grounding
Pareto 26.10 Preview0/30/31/30/3··
Pareto0/61/61/63/6··
Opus 5.50/84/80/83/50/3·
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash2/65/112/60/31/30/1
Qwen3.8 Flash0/31/41/1·0/1·
GPT-6 Luna3/30/33/3·0/3·
Gemini 3.8 Flash0/20/22/2·2/2·
Claude Sonnet 5.51/60/63/60/30/3·
GPT-6 Sol2/13·····
Perceptron Mk1.55/63/33/31/3··
Command A+6/63/33/30/3··
GLM 5.3 FlashX2/77/82/43/4·1/4
Kimi K33/3·····
Ember 13/3·····
Grok 4.73/3·····
MiMo v2.6 Pro2/2·····
Qwen3.8 Max Prime·0/30/3·0/3·
Sol0/42/40/42/4··
Qwen3.8 27B0/42/44/42/4··
Qwen3.8 Max······
Astra······
Union Alpha·0/1···0/1
models11 of 229 of 2211 of 226 of 222 of 221 of 22

labelling

labels that don't match what is drawn

32 results · 11 models · 2 tasks · 2026-09-22 to 2026-09-29

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-29
  • GPT-6 Sol on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Perceptron Mk1.5 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Perceptron Mk1.5 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Perceptron Mk1.5 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Command A+ on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Command A+ on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Command A+ on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-27
  • Perceptron Mk1.5 on Exploded French press, 2026-09-27
  • Perceptron Mk1.5 on Exploded French press, 2026-09-27
  • Command A+ on Exploded French press, 2026-09-27
  • Command A+ on Exploded French press, 2026-09-27
  • Command A+ on Exploded French press, 2026-09-27
  • Kimi K3 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Kimi K3 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Kimi K3 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Ember 1 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Ember 1 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Ember 1 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • GPT-6 Sol on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • GPT-6 Luna on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • GPT-6 Luna on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • GPT-6 Luna on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • GLM 5.3 FlashX on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • GLM 5.3 FlashX on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Grok 4.7 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Grok 4.7 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • Grok 4.7 on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • MiMo v2.6 Pro on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • MiMo v2.6 Pro on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-25
  • DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-22
  • DeepSeek 4.1 Flash on A three-set coffee Venn diagram, 2026-09-22

physical-plausibility

something that couldn't be built or wouldn't work

28 results · 9 models · 4 tasks · 2026-09-14 to 2026-09-29

completeness

a required part missing

25 results · 11 models · 2 tasks · 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-02

part-order

components stacked or connected in the wrong sequence

14 results · 6 models · 1 task · 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-01

  • Opus 5.5 on Exploded French press, 2026-10-01
  • Pareto on Exploded French press, 2026-10-01
  • Perceptron Mk1.5 on Exploded French press, 2026-09-27
  • Opus 5.5 on Exploded French press, 2026-09-23
  • Opus 5.5 on Exploded French press, 2026-09-23
  • Pareto on Exploded French press, 2026-09-22
  • Sol on Exploded French press, 2026-09-22
  • GLM 5.3 FlashX on Exploded French press, 2026-09-22
  • GLM 5.3 FlashX on Exploded French press, 2026-09-22
  • Qwen3.8 27B on Exploded French press, 2026-09-22
  • Qwen3.8 27B on Exploded French press, 2026-09-22
  • GLM 5.3 FlashX on Exploded French press, 2026-09-20
  • Pareto on Exploded French press, 2026-09-18
  • Sol on Exploded French press, 2026-09-18

topology

wrong connections, as in a molecule's bonds or a circuit

3 results · 2 models · 1 task · 2026-09-29

geographic-grounding

coordinates that don't match real streets or places

1 result · 1 model · 1 task · 2026-09-20

How a check is decided in the first place