Show HN: Checking Pope's election results with smoke test script for chimney

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26 points by vasusen 19 hours ago

This Playwright test script uses AI to test if there's smoke coming out of the Sistine Chapel chimney and whether that smoke is white. The test only passes if the smoke is white.

Currently, set to use Google Gemini Flash 2.0, but you can switch it to use other LLM providers/models by setting the environment variable in the Github actions workflow: https://github.com/donobu-inc/donobu-papal-election-tests/bl...

I've set it to run every minute during the Papal Conclave election times - https://github.com/donobu-inc/donobu-papal-election-tests/ac...

aitchnyu 26 minutes ago

Instead of AI looking at your code and browser and writing Playwright scripts, AI is directly controlling browser and asserting over tests. Do we have to wait for on-prem multimodal low latency AI for this to be viable?

And nice "smoke test" and making me curious about your product.

devonbleak 18 hours ago

Alternative version: check for dings on my phone from every news outlet sending a notification about it.

hcaz 18 hours ago

What was your motivation to use AI for this instead of simple image analysis?

  • ksajh 18 hours ago

    Writing prompts is much simpler than image analysis plus they make a AI test framework thingy

  • vasusen 17 hours ago

    Image analysis would be better. I just wanted to test it quickly with different models (Gemini, GPT 4o, etc.) using an AI testing framework I am building

  • akmarinov 18 hours ago

    AI’s cool

    • codr7 18 hours ago

      AI is for cool fools

alkh 17 hours ago

How much did you end up spending on API credits for Flash 2.0?

  • vasusen 16 hours ago

    $0.29 over the past 2 days