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. You can chat with the gnat, hit its neuron limits, and get quoted a price for more.