SureNav
About SureNav
SureNav looks like a serious navigation app. In reality it's an experiment in how easily we believe anything an AI tells us confidently enough.
Why SureNav exists
SureNav is a parody of our blind trust in AI output. The interface deliberately mimics big navigation apps so the result feels trustworthy — right up until you realize the whole thing was invented.
How it works
Once you enter a start and destination, the browser calls the Groq text API directly and asks a language model to describe the route.
No backend, no database, no map data. Everything runs in the browser as a static site built with Astro.js.
Why it's intentionally “bad”
The routes are never verified — the model makes them up. That's the whole joke, and also a warning: text that sounds convincing isn't necessarily true.
What about real AI navigation?
Even the big players (for example Google Maps with Gemini) run into the same hallucination problem. SureNav just shows it without the polish.
Tech stack
- Astro.js — static output
- TypeScript and vanilla JS
- Groq — text API
- Deployed with Docker + nginx
- No backend, no map data