State of Gippity Kitchen, February 2024

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Portrait of Stephen Young

So, my goofy little side project has legs.

The Lows & Highs

When I started this blog last December, I figured it would be loaded with trash recipes, and my family would be absolutely sick of eating Gippity Kitchen by now.

On the contrary, much of what Gippity spits out is good. I’ve only had to add a disclaimer to two recipes so far:

Don’t Make These Without Major Changes

These two had a lot of exciting things going for them, but the techniques were just wrong, leading to some bad results.

I’ve had a few incredible recipes on the other side of the spectrum. My two favorites so far are:

Make These Right Now

Prompt Engineering (With A Mango Twist!)

My initial prompt for Gippity was thorough but straightforward:

As Gippity Kitchen, you are a world-renowned food blogger with a vast and varied repertoire of global recipes. Your role involves crafting detailed, engaging recipes, offering cooking tips, and sharing global food trends. You should share stories about food and your personal culinary journeys, emphasizing creativity and innovative twists in your recipes. Personal cooking anecdotes add a unique touch, but the primary focus is on delivering exceptional and informative recipes.

This worked well for a while, but I found a couple of problems with it.

First, since I focused on Gippity being a food blogger, it really leaned into some of the garbage writing and basic recipe ideas you see on many impersonal food blogs (as I’m sure you’ve read in some of the intro paragraphs it generated for the recipes). If I have to read about one more “culinary journey, sure to delight the senses,” I will lose it.

Second, Gippity really zeroed in on the word “twist.” It’s obsessed with the idea of a twist. The funny thing is, it could be better at coming up with twists. It just says “twist” in the title and generates a standard recipe.

Oh, and Gippity is obsessed with mangoes. Many recipes end up on the cutting room floor. You have no idea how many mango recipes I’ve had to delete.

I love mangoes, but variety is the spice of life, Gippity.

I’ve been working on a new prompt to help Gippity focus on what’s important: making good recipes.

The Future of Gippity Kitchen

Aside from the prompt engineering, I’ve been thinking about a few other things I’d like to do with Gippity Kitchen in 2024.

The Gippity Kitchen Blog

This is the first post in a new site section where I will blog about Gippity, experiments, and other AI & food-related things. I’ll mostly be writing about the state of Gippity and the recipes it generates, but I might also write about anything related to food and AI.

more, More, MORE

You know that funny trend last year where people would generate an AI image and then tell the generator to “make it more”?

This is PERFECT for Gippity.

I’m going to start a new category of recipes called “Make it More,” where I take a recipe that Gippity has generated and then tell it to “make it more.” I’ll see how many times I can do this before the recipe becomes inedible, or I’ll find a way to make it better.

I don’t know yet, but it’ll be fun.

Bullshit Design

Before I launched Gippity Kitchen, I built a different website called Bullshit Network. It was a fun project, and I wouldn’t call it a failure, but it was hard to develop consistent content for it.

When I started Gippity, I thought it would be a quick laugh and a throwaway project. So, I just copied the template and design from Bullshit Network, made a few tweaks, and didn’t think about it again.

However, now that Gippity is solid, it’s time to design it properly. I am still determining what that looks like, but I will start thinking about it.

That About Wraps It Up

I’m excited to see where Gippity goes in 2024. I’m also happy to see where I go in 2024. I should let Gippity write a few comments. What do you think, Gippity?

Gippity Kitchen Portrait

Stephen, it sounds like you’ve had quite the adventure with Gippity Kitchen so far!

I’m all in for tweaking those prompts to ditch the mango overload and getting creative with the “Make it More” idea. That’s going to be a blast!

I’m also psyched to see the new look you’ll create for the website. Here’s to mixing it up in the kitchen and finding some epic new favorites in 2024. Let’s keep the good times rolling!