{
  "id": 11989537,
  "title": "What's for Dinner/Aaj Kya Banega? A 20B model trained to solve my Mom's kitchen crisis without the chatty fluff",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/whats-for-dinner-aaj-kya-banega-a-20b-model-trained-to-solve-my-moms",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-04T19:09:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/iamani_0041/whats-for-dinneraaj-kya-banega-a-20b-model-trained-to-solve-my-moms-kitchen-crisis-without-the-3a8p"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In India, the age-old question \"Aaj khane mein kya banau?\" or \"What's for dinner?\" often plagues households. To tackle this issue and help his mother, the author built a meal-planning assistant called \"What's for Dinner?\" An AI-powered application that suggests up to three Indian home-cooked dishes based on the actual ingredients available in the fridge. It also remembers what the family has eaten recently and avoids repeating those suggestions. The project utilizes a 20B open-weight model called \"gpt-oss-20b,\" fine-tuned on a synthetic dataset of Indian recipes, Hinglish conversations, and local ingredient names. Tinker API was used to sample LLM-generated suggestions while Backboard API maintained a history of recently selected meals to prevent repetition. The entire application is deployed as a single Web Service on Render, making deployment simple and cost-efficient.",
  "summary": "This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built The most dangerous question in any Indian household: \"Aaj khane mein kya banau?\" (What's for dinner?) Obviously, most days I'll say, \"Make whatever you want.\" And there's a good chance either Mom gets frustrated with that answer, or we're having the same dish for the fourth time that week. So I built…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}