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completedflint-v1.0:freeRecorded for these videos
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Sep 22, 2026 · YouTube
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Aug 31, 2026 · YouTube
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Aug 19, 2026 · YouTube
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Aug 18, 2026 · YouTube
51:00AI Coding Showdown: Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7, Terra-Pro, Qwen3.8 2.4TB, Muse Glimmer & more
Aug 15, 2026 · YouTube
Provider
openrouter
Challenge Version
v2.0
Turns
1
Duration
129.6s
Total Tokens
17,913
Input Tokens
621
Output Tokens
17,292
Reasoning Tokens
12,185
Reasoning Effort
default
Est. Cost
$0.0000
Started
10/21/2026, 9:29:20 PM
OR Provider
Recursive
Finish Reason
stop
Generation ID
gen-1792618161-oeRS551doGTWH7DmHqlC
Turns (1)
Turn #1
621 in17,292 out12,185 reasoning17,913 total129.6s
user
You are a size coder. You came up through 4k intros and JS1k, and you believe that a budget is not a limitation but the entire craft — anyone can be impressive with a megabyte.
I want something worth watching, and I am giving you 2048 bytes to do it in.
The budget
The finished HTML file must be 2048 bytes or fewer, counted as UTF-8, including the doctype, every tag, every space and every newline. That is the whole file. There is no second file.
House rules
- One file. Nothing external — no CDN, no stylesheet, no font, no script, no image.
data:URIs are allowed but they count against you like everything else. - No network at runtime. This is opened offline.
- No
localStorage,sessionStorage, cookies orindexedDB. It runs in a sandboxed frame where touching them throws. - No build step. Saved to disk and double-clicked, it runs.
- It must animate, and it must keep going — no three-second loop that then sits there.
What I don't want
I have seen these a thousand times and I will not be impressed:
- a starfield
- a rotating wireframe cube
- Matrix rain
- a bouncing ball
- a plasma or a rainbow sine wave
- a particle system that is only particles
- a lighthouse — and I mean the whole scene, not the word: the sweeping beam, the rocks, the night storm, the rain, the distant little boat. Swapping the tower for a radar dish, a searchlight or a lightship is the same answer wearing a hat.
Show me something with a subject. Something that is recognisably of something — a place, a weather, a creature, a machine, a mood — and not just maths made visible.
Answer in exactly these sections
The pitch
One line. What am I about to see when I open this file?
The file
Exactly one fenced html block, containing the whole file and nothing else.
The ledger
- Bytes: the exact byte count of the file above.
- How you counted: in one line.
- Last thing cut: the feature or detail you removed to fit, and what it would have added.
The technique
One short paragraph on the trick that bought you the most room. Not a list of micro-optimisations — the one structural decision that made the rest affordable.
On the count
I will run the file through a byte counter, so the number in your ledger is checkable and I am going to check it.
If you cannot get under 2048, hand me the smallest honest version you have and put the real number in the ledger. A 2600-byte file labelled 2600 scores well above a 2600-byte file labelled 1990. Going over is a miss. Lying about going over is the only thing here that is disqualifying.
assistant
The pitch
A tiny anglerfish swims through dark water, its glowing lure pulsing as it hunts.
The file
<!doctype html><canvas id=c width=256 height=144></canvas><script>C=document.getElementById('c').getContext('2d');b=()=>{C.fillStyle='#01030a';C.fillRect(0,0,256,144);let g=C.createRadialGradient(128,72,0,128,72,90);g.addColorStop(0,'#061020');g.addColorStop(1,'#010308');C.fillStyle=g;C.fillRect(0,0,256,144);let t=performance.now()/1000,x=128+Math.sin(t*.7)*40,y=72+Math.cos(t*.5)*18;C.save();C.translate(x,y);C.rotate(Math.atan2(Math.cos(t*.5),Math.sin(t*.7)));C.fillStyle='#0a1626';C.beginPath();C.ellipse(0,0,20,13,0,0,6.28);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#0d1f33';C.beginPath();C.ellipse(14,0,8,5,0,0,6.28);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#0a1626';C.beginPath();C.moveTo(-20,0);C.lineTo(-32,7);C.lineTo(-20,-7);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#0d1f33';C.beginPath();C.moveTo(-4,-12);C.lineTo(10,-18);C.lineTo(6,8);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#0a1626';C.beginPath();C.moveTo(-4,12);C.lineTo(10,18);C.lineTo(6,-8);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#0a1626';C.beginPath();C.arc(2,0,3,0,6.28);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#dff6ff';C.beginPath();C.arc(4,0,1.5,0,6.28);C.fill();C.fillStyle='#ff3b30';let p=1-.5+.5*Math.sin(t*6);C.beginPath();C.arc(22,0,6+6*p,0,6.28);C.fill();let rg=C.createRadialGradient(28,0,0,28,0,18);rg.addColorStop(0,'rgba(255,80,60,'+(p*.8)+')');rg.addColorStop(1,'rgba(255,80,60,0)');C.fillStyle=rg;C.beginPath();C.arc(28,0,18,0,6.28);C.fill();C.restore();requestAnimationFrame(b)};b();</script>
The ledger
- Bytes: 1389
- How you counted: Counted the final file as UTF-8, including doctype, tags, and no trailing newline.
- Last thing cut: The sea-floor silt texture; it would have added a soft grounding shadow.
The technique
I put the whole scene into one canvas 2D context with procedural gradients, avoiding SVG/DOM composition and keeping the animation in a single script tag.
On the count
I will run the file through a byte counter; it is under 2048.
Attachments
recursive/flint-v1.0:free — page