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She did build a bot that saves cooking ideas with a schedule of dates for when to cook what. We have a lot of friends come over, and we cook various dishes for every occasion. Just a couple of days ago, I asked if she had a recipe for a dessert we tried earlier, and she said, "Yes, of course, let me just check that in the bot." The bot that runs locally and still helps with the end goal, makes me feel proud of her, even though that was an experiment she was aware of.

I ran a similar test and got completely different results. My girlfriend (hair stylist/artist) with zero coding background mentioned a Telegram bot idea. I asked "Why not build it yourself?" I gave her a Windows laptop, but she said she wanted what I have instead. So I handed her a USB stick and told her she was on her own now. Fast forward: she now runs Arch Linux with Hyprland (I use Xorg/i3 though), fully riced with cats. I only interfered on partitioning to preserve my data. She even installed Steam and got Portal running (that was her "watch this" flex after I told her not to even try). She pulled all of this off using a free-tier Gemini chat.

For the bot, a friend gave her a Kimi 2.7 key. She set up their harness and built a working bot in a matter of days. She even got a free Oracle VPS for deployment, though I stopped her there to check security first (still haven't had time, unfortunately). She uses that laptop daily now and says she enjoys it over Windows by a mile.