Synthwave
Synthwave — sunset-grid synthwave loop.
What I asked each model — the Synthwave prompt
Every model on this page got this exact prompt inside the Agent Operating System: Synthwave — sunset-grid synthwave loop.
Single HTML file out. No iteration. No examples in the system prompt. Whatever each model produced on the first run is what's on this page. 2 frontier models have attempted it so far: Kimi K2.7, Grok.
Why this task matters. Synthwave is a textbook test of visual-class capability — the kind of build that exposes whether a model is doing pattern-matching or actual reasoning. Shipping this cleanly is the floor for what I expect from a frontier model — every model on the leaderboard should at least attempt it.
How each model handled Synthwave
Ranked by my 0–10 score from the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. Click any to play the actual one-shot HTML the model produced.
What I saw: This is GLM's. A cyan wireframe mountain range scrolling under a scanline synthwave sun — the single most beautiful frame in the whole shoot-out. Opus's clean Tron grid and magenta horizon is a close, cooler-toned second. Kimi got the idea but blew the exposure — the grid washes out to near-white. GLM wins this one going away.
Demo on the bench. Not scored yet — play it and form your own opinion.
Every attempt — live, playable
Side by side. Click any tile to run that model's actual one-shot HTML in a new tab.
▶ LIVE
▶ LIVEHow I scored Synthwave — methodology
Three axes, 0–10 each, averaged. Runs: drop the .html in a browser; if it opens to a broken page, it scores zero. Hits the brief: did the model ship the thing the prompt asked for, or a different thing it found easier. Looks good: visual polish, motion, interactivity — where most of the gap between gold and silver lives.
My scores trace back to the source comparison guides on agentos.guide. See the full methodology page for data provenance, including which source guide each cell's score came from.
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