Multimodal AI cookbook

Why does writing one alt text sentence per image take forever?

A higher vision bill than expected, and no idea how many tokens one image actually costs.

The model nails the big handwritten name on a scanned form and just leaves the tiny phone number blank.

The model reads the chart correctly. Then it does the subtraction wrong right in front of me.

My product name and coworkers' names, spelled a different way in every transcript.

I sent two images in one request expecting a real comparison, and got two separate descriptions instead.

Someone sends a photo of a damaged box and a person still has to look at it before anything happens.

Why does a few seconds of dead air at the start garble Whisper's first sentence?

Every reorg drops a new org chart image on me, and I still copy names and titles into a spreadsheet by hand.

My LLM extraction gets every field right and still attaches it to the wrong person on the page.

A chart label too small to read, and the model just guessing at what it says.

I want an answer about one moment in a ten-minute video without paying to send the model every single frame.

A customer's review photo shows the food looks great. The review text alone reads uncertain, and my RAG search only sees the text.

Users say the captions are always a beat behind, and I don't even know what number to measure to fix it.

My voice bot goes dead silent for three seconds while the model finishes talking, then dumps the whole answer at once.