I Built a Recognition App That Admits When It's Not Sure. Here's What It Took.
I've been building a personal image recognition project for a while now, and somewhere along the way it turned into something I actually want to write about. It's called TargetV1, and the short version is: it's a system that tries to identify what's in a photo, and when it isn't sure, it actually says so and goes and checks itself instead of guessing with a straight face.
That sounds simple. It really wasn't.
The first wall: hardware nobody had caught up to yet
I started on a laptop with an RTX 5060. Blackwell architecture, new enough that a lot of the tooling around it hadn't fully caught up yet. First time I tried running anything on the GPU, I got this:
