I constructed a Python CLI that generates Shakespearean, corporate, Gen Z and sarcastic insults with heat scoring and rhyme detection.
Been working on a side project called Roast Machine.
It generates insults across 6 tones from the command line:
😐 Sarcastic — dry, deadpan, weaponised politeness
🎭 Shakespearean — thee, thou, and ruin
💼 Corporate — passive-aggressive office speak
💀 Gen Z — chaotic internet energy
🎬 Dramatic — every word is a monologue
🥰 Wholesome Savage — a hug with a knife inside
Some of my favourite outputs so far:
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SHAKESPEAREAN → "my landlord"
Hark, thou most grievously confused boil upon the
backside of progress. Thou art like a jester who
hath forgotten the jest. Get thee to a library.
[Heat: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 7/10]
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CORPORATE → "whoever scheduled this meeting"
Per our last interaction, you remain a strategically
misaligned walking action item that never gets completed.
You are like a mandatory fun event nobody RSVP'd to.
I will not be following up on this.
[Heat: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 6/10]
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WHOLESOME SAVAGE
I genuinely love you, which is why I must say — you
are a tenderly catastrophic golden retriever who has
wandered off the path again. You are like a Roomba
confidently stuck in a corner. But you are still my
favourite person.
[Heat: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 5/10]
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Technical bits for those interested:
→ Pure Python 3.10+
→ Rich terminal UI with colour panels and heat bars
→ Alliteration and rhyme detection via CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
→ Seeded generation — share a seed, reproduce the exact insult
→ Batch export to CSV (up to 100 at once)
→ Combo mode merges two tones into one hybrid insult
→ No API keys, no internet required, works fully offline
→ ~39KB zipped
Built the whole thing on an iPad using GitHub Codespaces.
Happy to answer questions about how any of it works.