alt Hacker NewsCurious, why it was easier to use an LLM vs a non-AI app with a DB of foods?
Seems that in this case a traditional approach would be more precise and more environmentally efficient to get to the same results.
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tcoff91 • today at 1:13 PM
The data entry is a pain in the ass with those apps when cooking food from scratch. It’s much much easier with LLMs and natural language and voice mode and pictures of a food scale and things like that.
Any app I have used before has asked me to look up the foods and add them manually and usually there has been ads or subscriptions involved.
Much easier for me to take pictures of the packets while making the food, the weight the final bulk product and then when I eat just weight the plate and say “500g of casserole” and the LLM spits out the calories and keeps track of the daily consumption