It’s likely the system you built was trained on images of just cats and dogs; but Jev is using a general training set, and there is tuned for general purpose zero shot classification, rather than domain specific “is this a cat or a dog”.

If it needs access to my real system data, tell me why, and guide me through the all steps I need to complete to set it up.

Write out every step. Make it obvious. Come back to your instructions the next day and make them simpler, and more obvious.

Have as few steps as possible.

Time to value is key here.

a) poor design sense; b) poor design engineering (you have good design sense but can’t figure out how to build it); c) taken more than your hourly salary to learn a + b.

Agree with understanding if you could do it cheaper and faster next time, but the rule of 3 usually applies: “good, fast and cheap, pick 2”

It looks like you’re on the right track; pragmatism about specific tools, and their use cases.

Hopefully your friend sees the value in the tool and a big ROI too!

The world still spins, directions are now something we take from a computer.

Most people arrive quicker; and some without any thought, arrive in a pond at the end of a laneway because they haven’t considered the computer might be wrong.

Much easier said than done.