Thank you for sharing, Peter! I don’t think “beautiful” is the right word to describe these slides. Functional or practical are more accurate. This is proof we will ALWAYS need creatives.
Thanks, Peter! Great tutorial. Super cool html integrations and really stirs the creative juices… After creating over 10,000 PPT decks in my career, seriously… My main issue with creating slides with AI as a professional: (1) Longevity of the content (2) Document Sharing (3) Concerns with copyrighted images (4) Use of industry jargon integrated into the slides… (1) My library is gold. All of the elements and templates are built over time and they keep my work flow fast and efficient and reusable (2) Honestly, the sales people et al that I built for are not tech people, they need decks that they can edit on the fly when customing for their clients (3) While ai is 60% great at providing images, they often do not represent the exact content/products/people that I need, it’s nice but not precise and certainly not Getty-approved (wink) (4) Creating a PPT deck most of the time is very specific to an industry and while you can base the ai /slides on a pre-designed document, the ai doesn’t know jargon. It doesn’t know that NFL Football is different from College Football, for example. And often, due to its own copyright base code, cannot process that information. All in all, great stuff. Just some thoughts. Thanks for all of your hard work, much appreciated!!
Here's a starter prompt you can paste into Claude Code or Codex to make your own /slides skill:
Build a /slides skill in markdown that generates self-contained HTML decks. Use 12 varied layouts (cover, stat grid, chart, quote, code, comparison) over bullet lists. Add one subtle ambient animation per slide. Render each to PNG, inspect, fix layout bugs. Ask me any questions before you start.
If you want my full /slides prompt with the 12 formats + 3 templates, check out http://behindthecraft.com.
Thank you for sharing, Peter! I don’t think “beautiful” is the right word to describe these slides. Functional or practical are more accurate. This is proof we will ALWAYS need creatives.
Thanks, Peter! Great tutorial. Super cool html integrations and really stirs the creative juices… After creating over 10,000 PPT decks in my career, seriously… My main issue with creating slides with AI as a professional: (1) Longevity of the content (2) Document Sharing (3) Concerns with copyrighted images (4) Use of industry jargon integrated into the slides… (1) My library is gold. All of the elements and templates are built over time and they keep my work flow fast and efficient and reusable (2) Honestly, the sales people et al that I built for are not tech people, they need decks that they can edit on the fly when customing for their clients (3) While ai is 60% great at providing images, they often do not represent the exact content/products/people that I need, it’s nice but not precise and certainly not Getty-approved (wink) (4) Creating a PPT deck most of the time is very specific to an industry and while you can base the ai /slides on a pre-designed document, the ai doesn’t know jargon. It doesn’t know that NFL Football is different from College Football, for example. And often, due to its own copyright base code, cannot process that information. All in all, great stuff. Just some thoughts. Thanks for all of your hard work, much appreciated!!
Example slide deck the skill can make: https://peteryang-slides.vercel.app
Here's a starter prompt you can paste into Claude Code or Codex to make your own /slides skill:
Build a /slides skill in markdown that generates self-contained HTML decks. Use 12 varied layouts (cover, stat grid, chart, quote, code, comparison) over bullet lists. Add one subtle ambient animation per slide. Render each to PNG, inspect, fix layout bugs. Ask me any questions before you start.
If you want my full /slides prompt with the 12 formats + 3 templates, check out http://behindthecraft.com.
Building the system once and reusing it is where AI starts creating real leverage instead of just saving a few minutes