[HN Gopher] Ask HN: AI hackday at work - what shall I work on?
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       Ask HN: AI hackday at work - what shall I work on?
        
       I'm a software engineer (typescript/react (and react
       native)/lua/bash scripting skills). At work this week we're having
       an "AI hackday"; we can work or anything we want, as long as it
       utilises AI in some way (doesn't have to be work related). An app,
       proof-of-concept, etc. work will pay for chatgpt or similar API
       keys (for a limited time). I'm really struggling to come with a
       unique and fun idea.  Does anyone have any ideas for a useful, fun
       thing to work on for 24 hours?
        
       Author : Tmkly
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2024-06-30 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
       | allamaso wrote:
       | did you asked chatgpt already? lol
        
       | meiraleal wrote:
       | Anything worth it should be done for yourself, not for someone
       | else's company
        
       | dakiol wrote:
       | 24 working hours or normal hours? If the latter, I wouldn't
       | recommend doing it. Tired of companies taking advantage of free
       | labour.
        
         | Tmkly wrote:
         | It'll be normal hours, they won't expect us to work outside of
         | that.
        
       | b20000 wrote:
       | are they paying you for the hours you participate in this? if not
       | then you should not participate
        
         | Tmkly wrote:
         | It'll be normal working hours, they won't expect anything more
        
       | oumua_don17 wrote:
       | I wouldn't invest a lot of mental effort in this as the company
       | will own the idea anyways.
        
         | Tmkly wrote:
         | I'm not thinking of anything particularly ambitious. Just
         | something fun I can work on by myself or with a couple of
         | others and can demo to the rest of the company (I work for a
         | pretty small company). They won't be bothered about "owning"
         | the work.
        
       | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
       | Ask AI to write you a simulation of a hockey game where everyone
       | skates towards the puck.
        
       | spaceywilly wrote:
       | The best uses of AI I've come across are one that are integrated
       | well into a tool I'm already using and just make my job a little
       | bit easier. So look for something where you could add a little
       | box that says "summarize the messages in this thread" or "suggest
       | a title for this note" or something along those lines.
        
         | malux85 wrote:
         | * and that work transparently -
         | 
         | Don't put a button that says "suggest a title for this note" -
         | make the LLM create a title, put it in a placeholder that the
         | user just has to press "TAB" (or something) to confirm
        
       | lamroger wrote:
       | backoffice automation
        
       | qprofyeh wrote:
       | Well, if the company is providing input data, it could be
       | interesting to generate something with it. Like a customer
       | profile pic based on their user data and past orders!
        
       | f0e4c2f7 wrote:
       | Lately I've been experimenting with using TDD approaches for LLM
       | assisted coding. There is a little bit on YouTube and some
       | research papers on this topic. But most of it relates to how well
       | you understand the test suites for the given language / framework
       | to ask for the tests to be designed in the right way.
       | 
       | This has been great in gpt-4o for python because it has a built
       | in interpreter. So I can describe the way I want the API to look,
       | ask it to write tests in Python, write the code to satisfy those
       | tests, and then run the unit tests in it's own local python env
       | to see if the code works.
       | 
       | This streamlines things a lot. I find I can get working artifacts
       | from gpt this way when other I often have to have a bit of a back
       | and forth where I'm the one testing and pasting in errors.
       | 
       | For gpt-4o this only works with python though (for now).
       | 
       | It might be interesting to build a platform like this, even in
       | your local laptop that allows the LLM to shell out to a sandbox
       | for something like React with the unit tests configured so the
       | LLM can run them and get the output.
       | 
       | Interestingly, frameworks like react also have test suites around
       | ui/ux concepts. I haven't tried it, but I think it would be
       | interesting to use that same approach with those test frameworks
       | to attempt to get better looking frontends (something the LLMs
       | are not especially good at out of the box)
        
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