They’re not talking about zooming, hence the quotes.
replyThey process the original image file with Python on the local device. (And I've seen the web chats do this with their "computer use" features too.)
replyThe really wild one is even blind models will do this and they'll try to run stats on the pixels to figure out what it looks like... the even wilder thing is that it kind of works!
If the API accepts only 800 by 800, the aegument youre making is "fix it in the harness".
replyI don't think the n by n subgrid fixes this the way most harnesses do, as it'll fail to count things if you have more overlap and fail relatiomships if you have less