Ask HN: What do you use GenAI for in your day to day life?

#1

Post by vthallam » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 5:04 PM UTC

Now that the dust has settled a bit, curious on if this is something that's still useful to you everyday.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use GenAI for in your day to day life?

#2

Post by PUSH_AX » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 5:13 PM UTC

As a software engineer yes I use it everyday. Boilerplate, straightforward refractors, questions.

It saves me a lot of time, and I’m senior enough to have my wits about me regarding questionable output.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use GenAI for in your day to day life?

#3

Post by hammock » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 5:17 PM UTC

Outside of work, I use ChatGPT as a search engine for questions whose answers typically would require synthesis from multiple sources (in other words, won't likely be answered by a singular Google search or article). It's a very successful approach.

Also used Midjourney to insert a nice bedroom background behind a bed for sale on FB Marketplace, and eventually sold the bed for 5x the price I was hoping.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use GenAI for in your day to day life?

#4

Post by PUSH_AX » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 5:39 PM UTC

hammock wrote: post #3

Outside of work, I use ChatGPT as a search engine for questions whose answers typically would require synthesis from multiple sources (in other words, won't likely be answered by a singular Google search or article). It's a very successful approach. Also used Midjourney to insert a nice bedroom background behind a bed for sale on FB Marketplace, and eventually sold the bed for 5x the price I was hoping.

Can you expand on the bedroom background? Like you super imposed the bed into a midjourney generated image of a room?

Re: Ask HN: What do you use GenAI for in your day to day life?

#5

Post by hammock » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 6:48 PM UTC

PUSH_AX wrote: post #4

hammock wrote: post #3

Outside of work, I use ChatGPT as a search engine for questions whose answers typically would require synthesis from multiple sources (in other words, won't likely be answered by a singular Google search or article). It's a very successful approach. Also used Midjourney to insert a nice bedroom background behind a bed for sale on FB Marketplace, and eventually sold the bed for 5x the price I was hoping.

Can you expand on the bedroom background? Like you super imposed the bed into a midjourney generated image of a room?

yeah basically. just selected around the bed and had photoshop fill in the bg