NYT Cooking’s AI assistant saved my weeknight chicken, but almost ruined my cake

A reviewer tested NYT Cooking's new AI assistant, available to subscribers on iOS at launch, which customizes recipes by suggesting substitutions, scaling portions, and converting measurements while leaving the original recipe unchanged. It successfully adapted a one-pot chicken and rice dish to missing ingredients and turned a Bundt cake recipe into muffins, but once gave the modified recipe's butter amount when asked about the original, which would have made a dry cake. The reviewer found it a useful sous chef that still requires double-checking amounts and cooking times.