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vjulian on June 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they ...

Also, do you mind dropping the sarcasm and explaining why you believe MyFitnessPal might be superior to ChatGPT in the usage I’m suggesting?

pacerwpg on June 9, 2025 [–]

You're offloading understanding what you're eating to a sentence generating algorithm. You might as well just eat Soylent if you're going to use an LLM for nutrition tracking.

vjulian on June 9, 2025 | [–]

Please desist from counterproductive discussion.

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