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

https://github.com/donobu-inc/donobu-papal-election-tests/blob/main/tests/papal_election_smoke.test.ts

26•vasusen•9mo 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...

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hcaz•9mo ago

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

akmarinov•9mo ago

AI’s cool

codr7•9mo ago

AI is for cool fools

ksajh•9mo ago

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

vasusen•9mo 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

devonbleak•9mo ago

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

akmarinov•9mo ago

Test should be passing now

vasusen•9mo ago

It passed right when the smoke started coming out - https://github.com/donobu-inc/donobu-papal-election-tests/bl...

alkh•9mo ago

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

vasusen•9mo ago

$0.29 over the past 2 days

aitchnyu•9mo 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.

vasusen•9mo ago

Yes, Google gemini flash and other models are reasonably fast but on-prem multimodal models will make these dramatically better. We are prepping for that future by being local-first including a desktop app.

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

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