Getting good output from Lens
If your Lens recaps come out cluttered with reasoning preambles or hallucinated detail, the fix is almost always upstream of Lens. A field guide to picking a model and configuring LM Studio for clean daily snapshots.
Tooling
Four frontier models, one year of office sensor data, four very different dashboards
I gave a year of Adafruit Clue environmental data to Gemini, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and Claude Opus 4.7. Same prompt, same dataset, four very different answers, and only one of them asked for more data.
The move was upstream
I spent most of a day in a stalled debug loop with one AI model before opening a fresh session with another. The lesson wasn't about which model is smarter. It was about going upstream.
Running real models locally on a Mac Studio that isn't new anymore
How I run a multimodal LLM on four-year-old hardware to read a family archive without sending anything to the cloud.