Glimpse vs Laguna S 2.1
Glimpse took 8 min 32 s and $0.34 at list price, Laguna S 2.1 took 2 min 43 s and $0.003 at list price. Glimpse took 3.1× as long and cost 107× as much.
Glimpse
Elorian · $3.00/M out
Laguna S 2.1
Poolside · $0.18/M out · free route · 430 HN pts
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 een drie personen studio in Rotterdam die zich specialiseert in het repareren van vintage synthesizers. Onze missie is om de magie van klassieke elektronische instrumenten levendig te houden en te delen met een nieuwe generatie makers en musicians.
Gestart door twee ervaren technici en een ontwerper, combineren wij technische precisie met een diep begrip van elektronische muziekgeschiedenis. Wij geloven dat elk oud apparaat een verhaal heeft en een unieke klank die bijdragen aan de creatieve processen van artiesten.
Onze aanpak is zorgvuldig en respectvol. Elk apparaat wordt met de grootste zorg behandeld, met gebruik van oorspronkelijke onderdelen wanneer mogelijk en moderne technieken wanneer nodig. We streven altijd naar een perfecte balans tussen authenticiteit en betrouwbaarheid.
Of je nu een geliefde vintage synth moet repareren of hulp nodig hebt bij het onderhouden van je collectie, Patchbay staat klaar om je instrumenten weer in geluid te brengen. Neem contact op voor een consult; wij kijken uit naar het horen van je project.
Specs and numbers
| Glimpse | Laguna S 2.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Elorian | Poolside |
| Made in | US | France |
| Released | 17 Oct 2026 | 21 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.60 | free route (list $0.09/M) |
| Price out, per M tokens | $3.00 | free route (list $0.18/M) |
| Context | 262,144 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | — | 430 |
| Time for the six prompts | 8 min 32 s | 2 min 43 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.34 | $0.003 |
Laguna S 2.1 was cheaper: $0.33 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Laguna S 2.1 was faster: 5 min 49 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.





