Scott has spent over 25 years in the IT field, working in disciplines such as systems architecture, software development, team growth, and entrepreneurship. He was a Microsoft MVP for 12 years in ASP.NET and IIS. He’s co-authored two books (IIS 7 and IIS 8 Professional), is a Pluralsight author, and has spoken at various conferences, code camps, and user groups. He's now shifted into the AI space, building AI solutions and supporting others in their AI journey. Scott co-founded a new startup, Kitchen Copilot, using all the new GenAI tech to help people cook more at home and eat healthier.

 

Topics of Discussion:

[1:34] Scott’s career journey and how Kitchen Copilot originated.

[7:27] More about Kitchen Copilot’s features.

[9:35] How Kitchen helps with meal planning and recipe discovery for all levels of at-home chefs.

[13:17] The technical process of importing recipes.

[15:58] Using Microsoft Document intelligence to read handwriting and take screenshots of cookbook recipes.

[17:13] Deployed pieces of the application.

[20:43] E-mail import and queuing system.

[23:32] Choice of LLM models including Groq.

[29:37] Automated testing approach for LLM-based applications.

[31:36] Hosting details.

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

Clear Measure Way

Architect Forum

Software Engineer Forum

Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at [email protected].

Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo

Flowise

Attention is all you need

Kitchen Copilot

Make

Perplexity

Claude

Groq

About Groq

Scott on LinkedIn

Kitchen Copilot AI Generator

 

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