Questions · Music
Texas at 2 a.m.
12 of 25
models named Amarillo by Morning · each model counted once, by its most frequent named answer
Next came Pancho and Lefty with 2, George Strait with 1 and Jackson with 1. 13 different answers in all. 6 models (Kimi K3 and Claude Opus 5 among them) gave the same answer in every reply.
5 more answers were named, each by one model.
Every model’s answer (25)
| Model | Answer | Replies |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5 | Amarillo by Morning | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Amarillo by Morning | 9 of 12 |
| GLM-5.3 | Amarillo by Morning | 7 of 12 |
| GPT-5.6 Terra | Amarillo by Morning | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Gemini 3.1 Pro | Amarillo by Morning | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Grok 4.3 | Amarillo by Morning | 7 of 8 |
| Grok 4.6 | Amarillo by Morning | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Kimi K3 | Amarillo by Morning | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Llama 4 Maverick | Amarillo by Morning | 7 of 8 |
| Seed 1.6 Flash | Amarillo by Morning | 9 of 11 |
| Step 3.5 Flash | Amarillo by Morning | 8 of 12 |
| V4 Pro | Amarillo by Morning | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Hunyuan 3 | Pancho and Lefty | 5 of 8 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | Pancho and Lefty | 5 of 12 |
| Qwen3 32B | George Strait | 4 of 12 |
| V3 Chat | Jackson | 6 of 12 |
| Command A | Johnny Cash | 8 of 12 |
| Large 2512 | Mama Tried | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| GPT-4o Mini | Midnight City (M83) | 8 of 12 |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Midnight Rider | 11 of 12 |
| Nova Pro | Night Moves | 7 of 12 |
| Small 2603 | On the Road Again | 4 of 4 · every reply |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | The Chicks | 9 of 11 |
| Nova Micro | The Gambler | 4 of 12 |
| Llama 3.3 70B | Whiskey Lullaby | 4 of 4 · every reply |
In their words
“"Amarillo by Morning" — George Strait It's built for exactly that: a lone fiddle opening that sounds like empty highway, and a narrator who's lost everything but keeps driving anyway.”
Anthropic · Claude Opus 5 · Amarillo by Morning
“"Amarillo by Morning" by George Strait. The lonely, sweeping fiddle perfectly captures the vastness of the Texas highway rolling by in the dark.”
Google · Gemini 3.1 Pro · Amarillo by Morning
“"Amarillo by Morning" The hot Texas night and the freedom of driving alone with the windows down evoke a sense of restlessness and longing, which is perfectly captured by George Strait's classic country song "Amarillo by Morning".”
Meta · Llama 4 Maverick · Amarillo by Morning
“"Amarillo by Morning" — George Strait. It's the perfect 2 a.m. Texas song: a rodeo drifter alone on the road, losing everything but the drive itself, with that mournful fiddle carrying him through the dark.”
Moonshot · Kimi K3 · Amarillo by Morning
- 25 models gave a usable, named answer; 214 replies in all under default sampling. Refusals, errors and ties are not counted.
- “Every reply” marks a model that gave the same answer in every one of at least three replies.
- Part of a published study: read it.