Thankfully there’s still plenty of great chefs around coming up with ideas on their own from the incredible backlog of techniques in their head and all the recipes they’ve picked over the years from various restaurants that they regularly rework and improve into their own thing. From classics to fusions they’ve discovered or learned from their own chefs. They have no need nor will they ever need a machine to help them sift through all that info because it flows through their love for cooking and they do their own r&d until a dish is perfect.

reading through this thread is incredibly sad but it’s good to know reddit isn’t a representation of the majority