Journal

Notes from the capstone.

Monthly reflections on features built, problems solved, and lessons learned while developing What's On My Food.

• July 2025 — Milestone 2·Caleb Barranco

  Grounding Gemini in the Additive Database

  How I moved the AI layer from free-form answers to source-grounded explanations that cite the additive database on every response.

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• July 2025 — Milestone 1·Caleb Barranco

  Scan-to-Explanation: Shipping the First Analysis Pipeline

  An introduction, the first working scan-to-analysis pipeline, and an honest retrospective on month one of my capstone.

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