> still an insanely, unbelievably wasteful use of both your personal and our planet's resources to save five minutes a week

Actually a cheap microcontroller and a few cameras over the lifetime of the fridge that caused me to open it say 50% less would save more money than it would waste by my estimate.

> If you were talking about a smart fridge with an accompanying robot that automatically orders groceries, picked up the deliveries itself, and stocked your fridge that'd be something, at least

Yeah.

Step 1: fridge with smart inventory

Step 2: hook it up to grok bot

Step 3: grok bot orders your food from Walmart+ InHome

So every piece of this exists except the hypothetical sci-fi fridge.

Again, I’m stunned by the complete and utter lack of imagination and critical thinking here. You guys are the offshore contractors of HN commenting.

> Do people have the memory of a goldfish or what?

This is actually a pretty good point. Many people do have poor memory for a plethora of reasons. This would be a great accessibility feature.