[siriusastrebe]

Identifying objects in pictures was considered an insurmountable task only a few years ago, like in the xckd comic https://xkcd.com/1425/

[smallerize]

In the general case, I guess. But watching gauges and dials like battery capacity only take a little work with a deterministic computer vision library.

[idiotsecant]

Or just using voltage pickups like every system that monitors battery voltage ever, or about a dozen other very simple solutions.

[mindok]

Yeah - the correct way to use an LLM in this scenario is to ask it to put write such a model.