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If you have lots of experience from years of serious cooking, like I do, almost everything the LLM suggests or outputs re: cooking is false, bad or at best incredibly sub-par, and you will spend far more time correcting it and/or pushing it toward what you already know for it to be actually helpful / productive in getting you anything actually true. I also think it just messes up incredibly basic stuff all the time. I re-iterate it is only good for the things I said.

Whether or not you think you can get "good" recipes out of it will also depend on your experience with cuisine and cooking, and your own pickiness. I am sure amateurs or people who cook only occasionally can get use out of it, but it is not useful for me.

Cooking is a very different world from coding: recipes aren't composable like code (within-recipe ratios need to be maintained, i.e. recipes written in bakers ratios/proportions, steps are almost always sequentially dependent, and ingredients need to complement each other) and most sources besides the few good empirical ones actually verify anything they make, which is a problem, because the training data for cooking is far more poisoned.



I guess different people have different experiences when using those tools :)

(I was talking about people who cook daily for their households and enjoy doing it, I guess they found a way to make LLMs useful for them)


I also cook daily at home, for fun (though I have catered a couple times for some large 50+ people family events too). Just, in my case, cooking is my passion, and has been more than just a minor hobby for me. I.e. there have been many years of my life where I spent 3-5 hours of every day cooking, and this has been the case for about 15 years now. If "professional home cook" was a thing, I'd be that, but, alas.

So my standards are admittedly probably a bit deranged relative to most...




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