"EcoSphere AI: Why I separated 'logic' from 'AI' when building a carbon footprint assistant"

The Trap Most Carbon Apps Fall Into When you say "build a carbon footprint app," the obvious move is: collect some inputs, ask an LLM "how much CO2 does this produce," and display whatever it says. That's a trap. LLMs are not reliable calculators. Ask the same model the same emissions question twice and you'll get two different numbers. For a "track your carbon footprint" tool, that's disqualifying — the entire premise of tracking requires consistent, auditable numbers. The Arc...