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Explore a Decade of Diabetes Insights with Diabettech AI

25/02/2026 admin 3

After 10+ years of documenting the diabetes landscape, Diabettech is launching diabettech.ai—a custom research tool designed to help you navigate a decade’s worth of articles and reports. Powered by an LLM interface, this tool allows you to “interrogate” the site’s data to find specific answers on everything from cures to n=1 observations.
​Key highlights of the beta launch:
​Targeted Accuracy: Built to stick strictly to Diabettech articles and comments to minimize “hallucinations.”
​Research-Focused: Optimized as a precision tool rather than a standard chatbot to provide relevant article links.
​Sustainable Design: Privately funded and optimized for efficiency to manage resource costs and query speeds.
​Ready to dive into the archives? Visit diabettech.ai to start your research and share your feedback on the beta experience.

ChatGPT Health: Promise, Practicality, and the Reality for People with Diabetes

12/01/2026 admin 6

Artificial intelligence has been hovering around diabetes care for a while now, usually wrapped in glossy demos and ambitious claims. Carb-counting apps that “just work”. […]

Snaq. AI helping to manage glucose patterns.

Beyond Snaq-qing. Digesting your glucose patterns.

12/08/2025 admin 0

I spent a long time discussing Snaq’s use of AI for food recognition in the previous article. In this one, I’m looking at what it […]

Snaq. A diabetes AI to help you carb count. Badly.

08/08/2025 admin 4

Here we review Snaq, a diabetes management app that aims to simplify carb counting through food photo recognition. Despite its functionality, the app struggles with food identification and portion sizes, often leading to inaccurate outputs. Users must contribute data to improve its learning, raising concerns about its subscription cost versus effectiveness.

In conversation with… Unpacking the “Why” Behind the Errors

21/07/2025 admin 2

Here we discuss the LLMs design and purpose in the context of interacting with and advising on health data, and demonstrate why the two may be at odds with one another:

https://wp.me/p7O2EL-2BM

In conversation with… File uploads and interpretation. Where the wheels fall off!

18/07/2025 admin 0

In this final section of the “In conversation with” experiment, we provided “access” to complete Nightscout data for the LLM models.

Unfortunately, this is also where the wheels rather fell off, and whilst the results gave an initial appearance of credibility, upon further investigation it became clear that what was presented was rather less then effective and could have been very unsafe.

Read on to learn more: https://wp.me/p7O2EL-2BE

In Conversation with…. Reviewing user data and system settings using AI

14/07/2025 admin 0

In this article, we look at the abilities of the LLMs to review data charts in image form from Nightscout and see what they suggest in terms of changing treatments, and how the contextualise those changes.

As a key way that users are interacting with these models, this is a critical insight into what you might get.

It’s a big read with lots to go through, but we’d highly recommend taking the time. It revealed a lot of unexpected items that are potential gotchas…

In Conversation with…. Carb Counting with AI: A Deep Dive into How Different Models Stack Up

07/07/2025 admin 3

In the dynamic world of diabetes management, anything that can help us accurately estimate carbohydrates in our meals is a game-changer. Imagine a future where […]

In conversation with… Factual questions for Large Language Models

21/06/2025 admin 1

As I stated in the last “In conversation with” article, I split the questions into three sets. Factual, picture analysis and data analysis. This is […]

In conversation with… the questions

19/06/2025 admin 6

We provided a broad range of questions to the AIs we tested. They’re documented here and cover factual questions, wider information gathering, picture analysis and data analysis.

Read more to see what we went into.