<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Lens on Thede Technologies</title><link>https://thedetech.com/tags/lens/</link><description>Recent content in Lens on Thede Technologies</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 17:14:46 -0500</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://thedetech.com/tags/lens/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Getting good output from Lens: the model and LM Studio settings matter more than you think</title><link>https://thedetech.com/blog/2026-05-05-getting-good-output-from-lens/</link><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://thedetech.com/blog/2026-05-05-getting-good-output-from-lens/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;figure class="my-8">
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 &lt;figcaption class="text-sm text-slate-500 mt-2 text-center">A Lens daily summary derailed by reasoning artifacts — &lt;code>**People:**&lt;/code>, &lt;code>**Patterns:**&lt;/code>, &lt;code>**Drafting structure:**&lt;/code>, &amp;ldquo;Constraint Check&amp;rdquo; — bleeding into the narrative&lt;/figcaption>
 
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&lt;p>People pick up &lt;a href="https://tractorandsilo.com/lens" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lens&lt;/a>
, connect it to LM Studio, point it at whatever model they downloaded first, and expect polished daily snapshots. Sometimes they get them. Sometimes the same setup on a different machine produces output that reads like the model thinking out loud — or worse, fabricating events that didn&amp;rsquo;t happen.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>