CST 300 - Week 5 - Capstone and More

 Part One 

Comment 1: https://ys-cs-online.blogspot.com/2025/05/cst300-week-4.html?sc=1748980090430#c3685891391511726203

Comment 2: https://janayecsonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-plan-for-future.html?sc=1748988024255#c497986143907138492

Part Two

Meeting Analysis Tool

Build a tool that allows users to upload transcripts directly from Google Meet, Zoom or Microsoft Teams and does automatic summarization as well as sentiment analysis. Get key insights from meetings you didn’t take a part of! This would be a web-based project using the OpenAI API to handle the LLM aspects. Could be a fun, end to end web product to build.

Connect Four Online

Build a simple game of connect four online that supports two players. This would be a web-based project that allows us to make a simple, two-player game online. It would be fun to have a basic API service to create rooms automatically, and perhaps a separate web socket service to handle dynamic game events for rendering.

Youtube Video Summarizer

Students watch a lot of YouTube videos in all subjects. The idea of this project would be to take any Youtube video and post the URL into a website. This website would then give you a full summary of the video, along with key takeaways. This could be a valuable tool for understanding whether the video is even worth watching to begin with. This would be a web-based project using the OpenAI API to handle the LLM aspects.

Part Three

This week was fun! One of the biggest takeaways this week was from our Writing Lab where we used AI to build out a piece of our Ethical Argument Essay.


People consistently read headlines online that AI will take jobs by replacing human labor in all sectors. Due to the pervasiveness of that idea, people tend to accept that as fact without doing deeper analysis. I really liked this assignment because it allowed me to personally see what areas LLM fell short for the purposes of essay writing.


One of the big weaknesses for me was the actual “style” of writing that AI produced. It was hard to read. It certainly covered the points, but it had a rigidity that made it hard to follow the narrative. By the end I really did feel strongly that I would not use an AI to write any part of a paper for me. I could see the value of using it for research or for potential ideas, but the actual writing itself feels like it’s better left to humans.

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