Your vision model can't weigh food — and that's fine if you architect for it
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We spent a few months building a food scanner: point a phone at a plate, get calories and macros back. The naive version took an afternoon. Making it trustworthy took considerably longer, and the reason turned out to be one specific blind spot in vision models that no amount of prompting fixes. Thi…
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- 2026-08-24 19:37 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Your vision model can't weigh food — and that's fine if you architect for it