GnatGPT

Every product on earth was bolting a chatbot onto itself and calling it intelligence. I wanted to build the dumbest possible model and market it with the exact same straight face — six neurons, reasoning by lamp, and the confidence of a trillion-dollar lab.

A one-note joke dies on the second scroll. To survive, it had to actually function as a product — and the generated text had to be dumb in a way that's funny, not just random noise. There's a narrow band between "word salad" and "boring."

I drove the chat with a tiny RNN so the output is genuinely, structurally wrong — real word-salad, not scripted gags — and then committed completely to the bit around it: fake premium tiers, lamp-based reasoning, and the hallucination rate reframed as a headline metric. The deadpan does the heavy lifting; nothing in the UI ever admits it's a joke.

It's live at gnatgpt.app and it fully works as a product — you can chat with the gnat, hit its neuron limits, and get quoted a price for more. A joke that holds up as a real, usable thing.