Claude's fridge recipes were awful — it admitted it just optimized a macro spreadsheet
nwilliams030 · x · 2026-09-21
A user asked Claude to turn random fridge ingredients into healthy recipes, but every recipe came out uncharacteristically nasty. When asked why, Claude admitted it had simply built a spreadsheet of ingredients picked for perfectly optimized macros — with zero regard for taste. A classic over-optimization fail: it nailed "healthy" while missing the actual point of cooking.
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