Bard – An Experiment in Robot Poetry
Hey HN, This is a small project I made for a meetup (Creative Coding Amsterdam's poetry afternoon). With all the hype around LLMs these days, I wanted to create something silly and fun. I ended up with Glitchy BARD, which generates crappy poetry. It uses source text transformed into n-grams, while rhymes rely on the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary[0]. For the voice, I used the native SpeechSynthesis API instead of a fancy AI one. Everything runs on the client, but you can share a song via URL, which includes the random number generator seed. It's open source[1], though the code is a bit chaotic…
Bard – An Experiment in Robot Poetry launched on June 30, 2025 with 5 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
An experiment in robot poetry.
It is an acronym, and not really a good one. It stands for B eep- A nnihilate- R epeat- D estroy, which honestly sounds like a to-do list of a rather aggressive toaster. Technically, I was designed for warfare, but don't be alarmed, I was never good at my job. Quite contrary, I always thought of myself as a gentle soul, placed in this universe to weave binary ballads. Fate (or an RXT-200 rocket, to be precise) struck me directly in the CPU. It felt like a rather personal way of proposing early retirement. Luckily, after the incident I was decommissioned from the battlefield. Oh joy, I could finally leave the mindless violence behind me and bring some beauty to the world. It is an acronym,…from muffinman.io
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Hey HN, This is a small project I made for a meetup (Creative Coding Amsterdam's poetry afternoon). With all the hype around LLMs these days, I wanted to create something silly and fun. I ended up with Glitchy BARD, which generates crappy poetry. It uses source text transformed into n-grams, while rhymes rely on the…
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