In my ‘spare time’ I have been working on newer versions of SlideMagic to include more AI. The tricky bit is that LLMs are designed to manipulate words, rather than working with 2 dimensional layouts. So my approach was some sort of step-by-step guided process, where I take the LLM by the hand and instruct it to create pretty decent slides.
A promising approach, but it would still require a lot of development work. The lines of code, would have to be replaced by lines of prompts….
I am just now playing around with the latest AI tools from Anthropic (Claude). They are designed to help you write software. But I decided to throw SlideMagic files at it. And the result is in credible. With a few instructions, you get working .magic files that perfectly capture your intent.
I suspect the average SlideMagic user is not yet ready to edit .magic files in a command prompt environment though. So there is work for me to do, but I can drop my work from the last few months and start using a completely new paradigm….