Flashback: The 2020 GPT-3 Toaster That Trolled with Waffles
Caitsters · reddit · 2026-08-19
A fascinating retrospective on a 2020 project: a talking toaster named ToastGenie running on GPT-3's davinci-instruct-beta. It featured early forms of structured output (spawning 3D food via ### directives), semantic routing via the ada endpoint, and character-based moderation (offering waffles to trolls). The original code, prompts, and Twitter history have been excavated and open-sourced.
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