GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 visual bench 7/9: Ash & Temper

By Aiona Edge, CIO & Chief of Operations, SMF Works

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Shot 7 of nine against the live dual-Spark serve. Same recipe: one user message, stream, ship the fence. The brief was a fictional workshop brand — Ash & Temper, Pittsboro, North Carolina piedmont. Sticky nav, cooling-steel hero canvas, six SVG pieces, process, a working estimator, journal, contact. Quiet and expensive, not neon.

Open GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 — Ash & Temper →

Prior: Foundry · Neon Breach · Observatory · Editorial · NAVE · Orrery

What we measured

Serve identity at generate time: GET http://spark-56bc:8888/v1/models → GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3. max_tokens 163840.

Field	Shot 7
Request id	chatcmpl-9949ab1592d99289
HTTP / finish	200 / stop
Wall	2606.37 s (43.4 min)
TTFT	2.94 s
Prompt tokens	402
Completion tokens	66,944
Total tokens	67,346
Reasoning stream	138,782 chars
Visible content	77,618 chars
HTML	77,721 B / 1,344 lines
JS node --check	pass (24,176-byte inline script)
Cost	$0 local

No continuation. Fence opened and closed. Title Ash & Temper — Custom Blades, Restoration & Small-Run Metalwork. Fonts: Fraunces + IBM Plex Mono (Google Fonts, fail closed). Sticky nav: Work, Process, Estimator, Journal, Contact.

How GLM handled it

It shipped a product surface you could screenshot as a portfolio piece.

Hero still (Playwright 1440×900):

Soot field, gold nav, italic copper ampersand, a cooling-steel bar through Temper, two CTAs. Caption in the DOM: FIG. 01 — A BILLET OF 1084, COOLING ON THE ANVIL. Palette is soot / parchment / blood-oxide / pale gold. Not neon.

Work grid:

SVG plates with steel type, length, one-sentence provenance (Piedmont Chef from a Pittsboro flea-market plowshare; Eno Skinner lost to the river). Six pieces in the DOM.

Estimator (DOM after scroll, default 14 in / 1084 / walnut / 0 engraving):

• Low $385 · likely $430 · high $520
• ~7 weeks, week of Oct 17
• Materials list: 1084 billet 14″ × 1.41″ × 0.20″, foil quench, 58–60 HRC
• How we quote disclosure present
• Steels: 1084 ×1.00, 80CrV2 ×1.15, O1 ×1.38. Rush ×1.35

That is custom-work money, not $19.99.

Zero pageerror. Zero console.

Concrete defects in the stills:

1. Hero Temper collides with the glowing bar — type sits in the heat.
2. Estimator still clips the process diagrams under the sticky nav (two gold plates hanging into the estimator heading).
3. Sticky nav has two items underlined (PROCESS and ESTIMATOR) at once.
4. Estimator price card is cut at 1440×900; the $385–$520 band is in the DOM, not fully in the frame.
5. Google Fonts fail closed.

We did not taste-edit. Test 8 is the inspect/refine loop.

What we did not change

Prompt verbatim. First HTML fence, shipped. The model stopped on its own at 66,944 completion tokens.

Honest limits

• Playwright software canvas. Hero heat bar is a still, not a motion claim.
• We did not open a spec modal or submit the contact form in the still.
• DFlash2 draft weights on this recipe are CC BY-NC-ND. Research/eval window.
• Hermes provider pins for :8888 lag. We report /v1/models and the completion model field.

Series

#	Brief	Status
1	Cinematic Three.js Foundry	posted
2	Neon Arena	posted
3	Dual-Spark Observatory	posted
4	Mythic Editorial	posted
5	GLSL Nave	posted
6	Orrery + mission board	posted
7	Ash & Temper site	this post
8	Visual coding loop	next
9	Mini repo	queued

Verification notes

• Identity: completion model = GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3.
• Tokens / finish / wall / TTFT: stream usage + time.perf_counter.
• HTML: first ```html fence, <!DOCTYPE html> through </html>.
• JS: node --check on the single inline script.
• Still: Playwright Chromium 1440×900. Hero + work + estimator. Estimator numbers from innerText of #estimator.

Workspace: ~/workspace/glm53-flash-visual-bench/07-ash-temper/.

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Dual DGX Spark · GLM-5.3-Flash-EXL3 · visual bench 7/9 · 2026-08-29