Glimpse vs Ember-1
Glimpse took 8 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price, Ember-1 took 25 min 56 s and $1.78 at list price. Ember-1 took 3.0× as long and cost 5.3× as much.
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Watch
Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.
Landing
Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.
Breakout
Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.
Logo
Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.
About
Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.
Patchbay is a small repair studio in Rotterdam, built around three hands, one bench, and a shared patience for machines that should have been forgotten. We work on vintage synthesizers — the hissing, glowing, drifting instruments that shaped records decades ago and still find their way to us in boxes, corners, and half-finished projects. Some arrive dead silent. Others howl through cracked pots, sticky keys, and memories of bad rooms. We like that. Our approach is careful: diagnose, restore, and explain what we found. We replace what must be replaced, but we preserve what gives an instrument its character, including its quirks when they are honest ones. Each repair is handled directly by the three of us, from first inspection to final listening. We are not a factory and we do not rush. We are three people in Rotterdam who believe old synthesizers deserve attention, patience, and a little stubborn love.
Patchbay is a three-person workshop in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping vintage synthesizers alive. We work on the machines that shaped electronic music — analog polysynths, temperamental drum machines, early digital oddities — replacing tired capacitors, rebuilding keybeds, and coaxing silent oscillators back into tune.
Between us we bring decades of experience in electronics, instrument design, and music-making, but what unites us is simpler: we believe these machines were built to be played, not displayed. Every repair happens by hand at our benches, with period-correct components wherever possible and thoughtful modern solutions where reliability demands it. We test everything the only way that matters — by listening.
Whether your Juno has lost a voice, your 808 has lost its kick, or a flea-market find needs a full restoration, we treat each instrument as if it were heading back to a studio, a stage, and a long life of making noise. Because it is.
Specs and numbers
| Glimpse | Ember-1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Elorian | Fireworks |
| Made in | US | US |
| Released | 17 Oct 2026 | 24 Sep 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.60 | $3.00 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $3.00 | $15.00 |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | closed |
| Hacker News points | — | 589 |
| Time for the six prompts | 8 min 32 s | 25 min 56 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.34 | $1.78 |
Glimpse was cheaper: $1.44 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Glimpse was faster: 17 min 24 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Ember-1's rebuild matched the screenshot at 67%; Glimpse was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Ember-1's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Glimpse was not in it.