My last post was bemoaning the loss traditional websites in favor of AI assistants. This time I’m taking the opposing side when it comes to recipe websites. It felt like anytime I needed to look a recipe up in a pinch on my cellphone, I’d get the worst example of an ad-infested, auto-playing ad video page, where it took a year of scrolling to find the ingredients. Maybe it’s unfortunate that these sites probably have no reliable way to make money outside of ads, but they were really annoying for me and they will not be missed by me when it comes to AI agents replacing them.
Well, I didn’t have much planned for this post other than the rant of how much I hate the average recipe website and my recent experience of using ChatGPT to give me a couple of recipes. It gets straight to the point with the ingredients, and I don’t read the instructions after that anyways so it’s all I really need. I recently made chicken pot pie and it helped me with a crust recipe (using basic ingredients like butter, flour, and water) and gave me the proportions for a simple roux/bechamel sauce. I was able to use the same sauce for mac and cheese (just by melting cheddar cheese in it), and it’s remarkably easy to have it make adjustments to the proportions.
One of the interesting questions of these times is how fast will people change their habits? Will people still search the internet for chicken pot pie recipes (which will probably eventually be answered by an inline AI-mode answer) or will they go straight to an agent chat interface for doing that sort of thing? It’s a billion dollar question.