AI gave me a recipe. I made it. Here is how that went

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AI gave me a recipe. I made it. Here is how that went.

asked Claude to give me a weeknight dinner recipe using what I had in my fridge. I described the ingredients. it gave me a confident, well-formatted recipe with cooking times and everything. I made it. here is my report.

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I have had this experience and I need you to tell me the full story immediately.

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the confident cooking times are the part that gets me every time. it says “cook for 12 minutes” like it has any idea what my pan is like.

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mine told me to “season to taste” four separate times in the same recipe. at a certain point that’s not a recipe, that’s just vibes.

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ok so.

the recipe was for a pasta dish. looked fine. coherent. listed ingredients I had confirmed were in my fridge.

step 3 asked me to add “a splash of white wine.” I did not say I had white wine. I did not have white wine. the recipe had invented an ingredient.

step 5 said “fold in the goat cheese until just combined.” I also did not say I had goat cheese. I do not usually have goat cheese. the recipe had invented a second ingredient.

by this point I was fully committed and had no goat cheese. I used cream cheese. it was fine. maybe better than goat cheese would have been.

the dish was edible. I would say a 6 out of 10. the AI was confident about every part of it including the parts it made up. I respect that.

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this is the most relatable AI experience I have read. the quiet invention of ingredients you did not mention is so specific and so accurate.