[tonfa]

> I don't even see how an LLM (or frankly any recipe) that is a summary / condensation of various recipes can ever be good

It's funny, I actually know quite a few (totally non tech) people who uses (and like using) LLMs for recipes/recipes ideas.

They probably have enough experience to push back when there's a bad idea, or figure out missing steps/follow up.

Thinking about it, it sounds a bit like LLM usage for coding where an experienced programmer can get more value out of it.

[D-Machine]

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.

[tonfa]

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)