AI-Augmented Photo Curation Pipeline

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My Photos library had become a junk drawer. 4,691 items spanning six years: travel photos mixed with screenshots of WiFi passwords, AI-generated art alongside blurry pocket shots, receipts next to family portraits. Apple’s “Memories” feature kept surfacing a screenshot of a Slack thread next to a sunset in Portugal.

I needed to understand what I had, sort it and flag the obvious waste. Manually reviewing 4,700 photos would take days, while throwing every image at an LLM vision API would cost ~$14 and take hours. Much of that spend would go on screenshots and duplicates that metadata alone could catch.

Pipeline on oceanheart.ai

AI-Augmented Photo Curation Pipeline