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.
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.
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.
How I run a multimodal LLM on four-year-old hardware to read a family archive without sending anything to the cloud.