It's a question of time and priorities.

I work 8-10 hours a day and outside those working hours I want to spend time with my family, my friends, and my hobbies.

At the same time, during those 8-10 working hours I don't want to spend time fiddling around with different programming languages or software patterns just to spit out a quirky little tool that would make my job a bit easier.

For example, I wanted a local to-do list software that I could easily integrate with my workflow. Spent some time trying to find one, but not a single one worked the way I wanted. So, one morning, I spent 5 minutes detailing what I wanted, prompted it to Claude and let it rip while I was working. 30 minutes later, it was ready.

Typical case of the "curse of knowledge". We deal with AI on a daily basis on the technical level, so it's very easy to forget that the "common" folk really still believe that AI can replace dieticians, gym coaches, etc

> But the author just took pictures of food & expected a realistic response?

Outside our tech-enabled bubble, there are folks who have been sold the idea that ChatGPT et al is a miracle worker capable of replacing dieticians, gym coaches, psychologists, etc.

So it's VERY plausible to believe that there are folks out there snapping pics of their meals and asking GPT to spit out nutritional values.

That's a good point - and I think there's a wider core lack of knowledge outside of the bubble.

I suppose I just expected this study to be a little less 'water is wet' which made me dissapointed, but that may be coming at it from a more technical perspective.