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Anton's avatar

Loved this one. There’s something so grounding in the way you link food, memory, and tech evolution. That line—“the best of all the recipes”—really hits. Feels like that’s what we’re doing now with AI too: taking fragments of everything we’ve built, taught, tasted, and remixing them on demand. Funny to think a pancake recipe can carry family tradition and live inside an algorithm. Maybe the future doesn’t erase the past—it just eats breakfast with it. Looking forward to your Cioppino post when it lands.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Tx man, I appreciate that! Cioppino will be memorialized right after I make it on Xmas—will make sure this years batch is worthy.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Cooking is almost certainly one of the best use-cases for Chat GPT's Advanced Voice Mode. It's so quick for step-by-step stuff, and accurate enough so you can use it in real time. I am not employed by Open AI, but this thing is pretty amazing. Gemini Flash 2.0 isn't that far behind, either, FWIW.

I haven't done the live cooking thing, but we used Advanced Voice to fast-charge a car battery to jumpstart it a few months back, and I like to talk and walk sometimes too.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

ChatGPT is still my goto; SamA let it slip at TED2025 that they hit 1B users this month and for a product to do that in 2.5 years is unheard of. Interacting with voice is a game changer; I wrote a piece awhile ago on how that works. It really is magic. I haven’t gotten into that rhythm yet though, for some reason it is pretty latent inside my house. Maybe because my iPhone is hanging on for dear life

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Andrew Smith's avatar

How do you like Apple Intelligence so far? It's kinda like a more useful Siri, right?

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Meh, yeah Siri is better cuz ChatGPT, but overall its pretty underwhelming. But hey, you could make a custom diamond poop emoji!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I'm all about celebrating those small wins.

It'll be interesting to see how Apple tries to keep up.

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🅟🅐🅤🅛 🅜🅐🅒🅚🅞's avatar

Cool, I may have to give this cooking thing a whirl sometime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

You can pull off the pancakes for sure. Load them up with Canadian Maple Syrup 🍁

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Richard J Bennett Jr's avatar

Was the bibimbap better than Han's Hibatchi? If so, I will need to make a northward trip

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Oh man I forgot about Hahns! Dam that place was good; hands down the best bibimbap ever. I wonder if there is something special about a Hibatchi versus my BBQ, must investigate.

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Jennifer Frances's avatar

Yum!

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David's avatar

you can't give out the pancake recipe man

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I keep looking at it, wondering if I forgot an ingredient. I'll have to check next time. It's in the hands not the brain.

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Suzanne M. EASTMAN's avatar

Can’t wait to try the waffles and eagerly waiting for the cioppini recipe.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

Almost as healthy as a bowl of oatmeal ;)

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