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

3 points by parentheses 4 months ago | 7 comments
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?

  • ecedeno 4 months ago
    > 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?

    • dankwizard 4 months ago
      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 4 months ago
        Only Fans buy "It"

        There's another hint

      • muzani 4 months ago
        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.
        • JohnFen 4 months ago
          I'd sell them. If that's not possible, I'd let them expire.
          • 4 months ago
            • vednig 4 months ago
              Is this hypothetical or real?
              • 4 months ago
                • bhaney 4 months ago
                  Can I sell them?