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

2 points by vthallam 2 years ago | 4 comments

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

hammock 2 years ago |

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.

PUSH_AX 2 years ago | |

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

hammock 2 years ago | | |

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

PUSH_AX 2 years ago |

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.