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nahsratoday at 1:28 PM1 replyview on HN

I understand this instinct, but I can see the appeal of capabilities that are well within the limits of a well-designed agentic system.

Imagine asking such a system, "look at my postprandial response to dosing for the past week and make ratio suggestions for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." This is genuinely helpful, saves time, and well within the reasoning limits. You could spot check if you like.

Is it worth setting up such an assistant for the value you'd get out of it? I guess that's on the user and how many similar use cases exist.


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M0r13ntoday at 1:38 PM

> look at my postprandial response to dosing for the past week and make ratio suggestions for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

I'm not so sure about that. A patient absolutely must critically evaluate the LLM's suggestions. A naive user risks severe complications. A user with that kind of competence, however, doesn't need an LLM for such trivial adjustments - they're obvious