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Ask HN: What would you do with $1000 in AI credits

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You just received $10000 in AI credits. You can use them against the current offerings from OpenAI/Anthropic. They expire in 24 hours and you have 2 hours to spend on any pre-work. You cannot use these credits for your work/job.

What would you use them for? How would you maximize the return from the AI credits?

Ignore things like rate-limits.

Would you use them for charitable uses?

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JohnFen
I'd sell them. If that's not possible, I'd let them expire.
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ecedeno
> They expire in 24 hours

8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 2 hours of regular daily tasks. That leaves 6 usable hours.

> What would you use them for?

Nothing, probably let them expire.

> How would you maximize the return from the AI credits?

Given the time constraints, the expected result is nil with some stress as a bonus. By doing nothing, I achieve a local maximum of nil with no stress.

> Would you use them for charitable uses?

This sounds interesting. Is there any charitable organization that could benefit from receiving some credits that need to be used ASAP?

muzani
I've been using AI to call people and do product interviews. It's expensive, but still cheaper than a human doing it. AI's also a lot wittier and actually fun to talk to than a human. I'd dump it on that. You'd probably get some decent product specs out of it too, then spend the rest of the credits on a reasoning model to write up the specs.
dankwizard
There is a website where creators can sell a subscription to their 'content'. Their fans buy it.

I followed a guide I saw on reddit a while back on how to use AI and establish a workflow to create an AI 'content creator'. I'm currently running two models. I'd probably use the tokens on image/video gen to give subscribers a bit more this month.

vednig
Only Fans buy "It"

There's another hint

vednig
Is this hypothetical or real?