Generate slides without leaving the editor
· 2 min read · The Quack team
The first version of Quack AI made whole decks. You typed a topic, picked a slide count, and got a finished deck to edit. That fits the moment you start from nothing and fits nothing else.
Most deck-building happens in the middle. You have eleven good slides, you need three more on a subtopic, and you know exactly what shape they should be. Generating a fresh twelve-slide deck to harvest three of them is the wrong tool.
Quack AI now lives in the editor as a panel. Describe what you want, say how many slides, and it drops them in after the slide you have selected. The rest of the deck stays untouched.
What it costs
Credits are charged per generated slide, and only when generation succeeds. A failed call costs nothing, which matters because the alternative teaches people to fear the button.
The panel shows what a run will cost before you start it, and caps the request at what your balance can actually cover rather than failing partway through.
Two smaller changes that matter more than they sound
Hover to preview. The Add-slide gallery lists twenty-three slide types, and the names only get you so far. Hovering a type now renders a sample of it on the canvas, filled with plausible content, so you can see what a Rating scale or a 2D grid looks like before committing. It disappears when you move away.
A collapsible right panel. The editor's right rail takes 380 pixels, which on a laptop is a real fraction of the canvas. It now withdraws to a slim icon rail, and remembers that you closed it.
On trusting generated questions
Generated quiz questions are drafts. The model is good at structure and plausible distractors, and it is confidently wrong about facts at a rate that will embarrass you in front of a room.
Read them. Correct the ones that need it. The value is the fifteen minutes of formatting and phrasing it saves, and none of that value survives reading a wrong answer out to a class.
The panel sits in the editor's right rail under the AI tab, next to Add and Edit.