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I’ve made several recipes with Chat GPT providing the recipe. It’s way better than slogging through an ad-ridden blog with yet another story about how you used to eat food your grandma cooked.

Chicken lettuce wraps were A+, I’ve made that recipe multiple times. A barbecue spice rub for pulled pork was serviceable but unremarkable.

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Using AI for a wrap recipe is like using it to calculate 2+2. Everybody knows that LLMs can answer trivial questions via its scraped database.

This example goes deeper and shows the limits of such tools when asked to answer complex queries.

But the original point is valid that most "how to" blogs will turn your gaming rig into a heating device. It's not that the chatbots are better, it's that getting trivial information from the Internet has become a form of torture.

I asked it for a recipe for orange sauce, like at a taqueria. It dutifully provided me a recipe where the first ingredient was 8-12 oranges.

A counter example: I like making hasselback potatoes for special dinners. It’s incredibly tedious to peel, slice, and stack 4 pounds of potatoes.

I dumped in my recipe and notes, suggested the 1 lb bag of shredded raw potatoes instead of the sliced potato and asked for an adjusted recipe I could cook on a cooktop.

These are the most delicious latkes I’ve ever eaten.

A versatile recipe: you can use it for your dish and bring it along for a voyage on the high-seas to combat against scurvy.

LLM's have always sucked at generating from whole cloth. If you give it a list of ingredients in your pantry and your taste preferences then it will give you a better answer.