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

by vthallam on 8/8/23, 5:04 PM with 4 comments

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

  • by hammock on 8/8/23, 5:17 PM

    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.

  • by PUSH_AX on 8/8/23, 5:13 PM

    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.