Gags
Six neurons. Zero shame. One-hundred-percent hallucination.
A parody AI chatbot powered by a single gnat's six-neuron brain, complete with premium pricing and a proudly-advertised 100% hallucination rate.
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. Then I committed completely to the bit: fake premium tiers, lamp-based reasoning, the hallucination rate presented as a headline feature. Nothing in the UI ever admits it's a joke, which is the 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.
Devlog
live from git- Map RNN character output to words for readable gnat word-salad
- Mobile overhaul: hamburger sidebar, send button fix, safe areas
- Add animated "New! Try GnatGPT Pro" tooltip on model picker
- Fix iOS Chrome/Safari bottom cutoff
- Create CNAME
- Delete CNAME
- Create CNAME
- Replace Transformers.js with pure JS 100K-param RNN, add fly & polish
Pulling off a deadpan parody means nailing tone, generative text, pricing UX, and product polish all at once; the same full-stack taste I'd bring to building your actual hard thing, minus the gnat.