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

24•vasusen•8h 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...

Comments

hcaz•7h ago

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

akmarinov•7h ago

AI’s cool

codr7•6h ago

AI is for cool fools

ksajh•7h ago

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

vasusen•6h 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•7h ago

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

akmarinov•6h ago

Test should be passing now

vasusen•6h ago

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

alkh•6h ago

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

vasusen•5h ago

$0.29 over the past 2 days

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