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joshstrangetoday at 2:27 PM4 repliesview on HN

Just so I have this clear, you rate a restaurant badly based on the pictures of the food and not the taste/flavor/etc?

These places are doing their best to compete in a cutthroat environment with often razor-thin margins but you are willing to write them off and actively try to harm them for reaching for a tool to try and meet consumer's ever-increasing expectations?

Just like in the native vs electron debate it's not "Beautiful hand-crafted native app" or "Electron wasteful trash", it's "Electron or nothing".

I don't begrudge people at all for reaching for LLM/AI to help cover over what they are incapable of doing or unable to pay other people for. And while "anyone can take a picture" taking good food photography is difficult.


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account42today at 2:43 PM

He's giving the restaurant feedback that this is not what the customer wants, in the only meaningful way to provide feedback.

> Electron or nothing

"Nothing" is an open space for someone to provide a better solution so often better in the long term than a bad implementation.

mjhaytoday at 2:42 PM

Pictures aren’t mandatory. Most restaurants don’t have them.

XorNottoday at 3:00 PM

They make and sell food in an age where literally everyone has a high quality camera in their pocket.

In their core business they're not going to show an actual picture of the actual product they intend to provide?

In an age where people routinely tweet/Instagram/message pictures of their served meals?

oeithotoday at 2:43 PM

Yes.