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I love this! I use coding agents to generate web-based slide decks where “master slides” are just components, and we already have rules + assets to enforce corp
by beklein 8mo ago
I love this! I use coding agents to generate web-based slide decks where “master slides” are just components, and we already have rules + assets to enforce corporate identity. With content + prompts, it’s straightforward to generate a clean, predefined presentation.
What I’d really want on top is an “improv mode”: during the talk, I can branch off based on audience questions or small wording changes, and the system proposes (say) 3 candidate next slides in real time. I pick one, present it, then smoothly merge back into the main deck.
Example: if I mention a recent news article / study / paper, it automatically generates a slide that includes a screenshot + a QR code link to the source, then routes me back to the original storyline.
With realtime voice + realtime code generation, this could turn the boring old presenter view into something genuinely useful.
- orochimaaru 8mo agoHow do you handle the diagrams?
- beklein 8mo agoIn my AGENTS.md file i have a _rule_ that tells the model to use Apache ECharts, the data comes from the prompt and normally .csv/.json files. Prompt would be like: "After slide 3 add a new content slide that shows a bar chart with data from @data/somefile.csv" ... works great and these charts can be even interactive.
- orochimaaru 8mo agoWhat about other ad hoc diagrams like systems architecture, roadmaps, mind maps, etc. These are the bane of any staff engineers life - lol. Because people above need to know a plan in art form. So seriously interested on how I can make it easier
- mcamac 8mo agoYou could try something like mermaid (or ASCII) -> nano banana. You can also go the other way and turn images into embedded diagrams (which can be interactive depending on how you're sharing the presentation)
- beklein 8mo agoNot my normal use-case, but you can always fall back and ask the AI coding agent to generate the diagram as SVG, for blocky but more complex content like your examples it will work well and still is 100% text based, so the AI coding agents or you manually can fix/adjust any issues. An image generation skill is a valid fallback, but in my opinion it's hard to change details (json style image creation prompts are possible but hard to do right) and you won't see changes nicely in the git history. In your use case you can ask the AI coding agent to run a script.js to get the newest dates for the project from a page/API, then it should only update the dates in the roadmap.svg file on slide x with the new data. This way you will automagically have the newest numbers and can track everything within git in one prompt. Save this as a rule in AGENTS.md and run this every month to update your slides with one prompt.
- sleazebreeze 8mo agoClaude code can output Excalidraw format files which can be imported directly into the webapp. You can MCP it too if you want.
- jmalicki 8mo agoI have it do svgs. The layout isn't always great on first shot, but you iterate on that. They can also natively generate e.g. github markdown mermaid diagrams (github markdown has a lot of extensions like that)
- turnsout 8mo agoI love the idea of a living slide deck. This feels like a product that needs to exist!
- sva_ 8mo agoI love the probabilistic nature of this. Presentations could be anywhere from extremely impressive to hilariously embarrassing.
- clickety_clack 8mo agoIt would be so cool if it generated live in the presentation and adjusted live as you spoke, so you’d have to react to whatever popped on screen!
- onionisafruit 8mo agoEvery presentation becomes improv
- deepGem 8mo agoIsn't that such a great outcome. No more robotic presentations. The best part is that you can now practice Improv at the comfort of your home.
- mbreese 8mo agoAnd this product will work great for any industry... can I get a suggestion for an industry from the crowd? Audience: Transportation... Education... Insurance... Speaker: Great! I heard "Healthcare". Right... as we can see from this slide, this product fits the "Healthcare" industry great because of ...
- lelandfe 8mo agoCaro’s first LBJ biography tells of how the future president became a congressman in Texas in his 20s, by carting around a “claque” of his friends to various stump speeches and having them ask him softball questions and applauding loudly after Well, hey, who needs friends?
- DonHopkins 8mo ago
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- esafak 8mo agoCan you show one?
- beklein 8mo agoThe end result would be a normal PPT presentation, check https://sli.dev https://sli.dev as an easy start, ask Codex/Claude/... to generate the slides using that framework with data from something.md. The interesting part here is generating these otherwise boring slide decks not with PowerPoint itself but with AI coding agents and a master slides, AGENTS.md context. I’ll be showing this to a small group (normally members only) at IPAI in Heilbronn, Germany on 03/03. If you’re in the area and would like to join, feel free to send me a message I will squeeze you in.
- jorgenveisdal 8mo agoAs an associate professor who spends a ridiculous amount of time preparing for lectures, I would love to try this in one of my courses
- cebert 8mo agoTry Claude Code too. It’s surprisingly good at this.
- deepGem 8mo agoI built something similar at a hackathon, a dynamic teleprompter that adjusts the speed of tele-prompting based on speaker tonality and spoken wpm. I can see extending the same to an improv mode. This is a super cool idea.
- m_mueller 8mo agoYou're describing almost verbatim what we're building at Octigen [1]! Happy to provide a demo and/or give you free access to our alpha version already online. [1] https://octigen.com https://octigen.com
- cebert 8mo agoClaude Code is pretty good at making slides already. What’s your differentiator?
- m_mueller 8mo ago* ability to work with your own PowerPoint native templates; none of the AI slide makers I've seen have any competency in doing that. * ability to integrate your corporate data. * repeatable workflows for better control over how your decks look like.