Credits

Rugrat AI features Waah-1, the world's first Lil' Language Model.

Rugrat AI was vibe-coded by Jerry Kindall using Perplexity AI, powered Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Thinking mode. Source code is available on Github.

Special thanks:

• Chris Pirillo for showing the way with the Vibe Arcade.
• Tom Weishaar for prior art in the April, 1984 issue of Softalk (page 51).
• Amy Tighe for her extreme patience.

Rugrat AI is a work of satire and is not intended to be taken seriously. Any resemblance to real chatbots, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Rugrat AI is copyright © 2026 Temper Intelligence, a brand of Mininmum Effort LLC.