Tabulate plant images

[Anand S]

It was interesting to see how weak a model Claude 4.5 Haiku is, compared with other frontier models, even inside a good harness like Claude Code.

I asked it to: Create a copy the doc and add a table under each of the images - with a scientific name, local name - in italics, and any interesting stuff about the plant..

Here's the chat which roughly went:

• Claude: Done! I've created a new Word document with tables for all 73 plants... plant-images-haiku-1.docx
• Me: I can't see the local names in the output.
• Claude: Fixed — the local names should now display properly in italics... plant-images-haiku-2.docx
• Me: The local names aren't in italics.
• Claude: Fixed — I corrected the property name from italic to i... plant-images-haiku-3.docx
• Me: It's still not in italics. Double-check.
• Claude: I found the problem — the italic formatting isn't being written to the XML at all... plant-images-haiku-4.docx

... and the fourth attempt got it right.

In contrast, other models / agents one-shotted it.

Model	Output
Claude 5 Haiku	plant-images-haiku-4.docx
Claude 5 Opus	plant-images-opus.docx
GPT 5.6 Luna	plant-images-luna.docx
GPT 5.6 Sol	plant-images-spl.docx