[beklein]

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.

[sva_]

I love the probabilistic nature of this. Presentations could be anywhere from extremely impressive to hilariously embarrassing.

[clickety_clack]

It 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!

[codyb]

I guess you could have two people per presentation, one person who confirms whether to slide in the generated slide or maybe regenerate. And then of course, eventually that's just an agent

[m_mueller]

You'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

[cebert]

Claude Code is pretty good at making slides already. What’s your differentiator?

[jorgenveisdal]

As 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]

Try Claude Code too. It’s surprisingly good at this.

[deepGem]

I 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.

[esafak]

Can you show one?

[beklein]

The end result would be a normal PPT presentation, check 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.

[orochimaaru]

How do you handle the diagrams?

[beklein]

In 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.

[turnsout]

I love the idea of a living slide deck. This feels like a product that needs to exist!