Introduction to AI Brewing
Aiden profiles are shared and added to Aiden units through Fellow’s brew.link service. However, the profiles are not offered in an easy-to-sort database, nor are they easy to scan for details. To address this issue, Aiden enthusiast and hobbyist coder Kevin Anderson created brewshare.coffee, which gathers both general and bean-based profiles, makes them easy to search and load, and adds optional but quite helpful suggested grind sizes.
The Story Behind Brewshare.coffee
As a non-professional developer jumping into a public offering, Anderson had to work hard on data validation, backend security, and mobile-friendly design. “I just had a bit of an idea and a hobby, so I thought I’d try and make it happen,” Anderson writes. With his tool, brew links can be stored and shared more widely, which helped both Dixon and another AI/coffee tinkerer, Gabriel Levine.
Who is Gabriel Levine?
Gabriel Levine, director of engineering at retail analytics firm Leap Inc., lost his OXO coffee maker (aka the “Barista Brain”) to malfunction just before the Aiden debuted. The Aiden appealed to Levine as a way to move beyond his coffee rut—a “nice chocolate-y medium roast, about as far as I went,” he told Ars. “This thing that can be hyper-customized to different coffees to bring out their characteristics; [it] really kind of appealed to that nerd side of me,” Levine said.
The Coffee Maker with 3,588 Ideas
Levine’s Aiden Profile Creator is a ChatGPT prompt set up with a custom prompt and told to weight certain knowledge more heavily. What kind of prompt and knowledge? Levine didn’t want to give away his exact work. But he cited resources like the Specialty Coffee Association of America and James Hoffman’s coffee guides as examples of what he fed it.
How the Aiden Profile Creator Works
It’s a blind leap, but it has landed just right for the author so far. The author has made four profiles with Levine’s prompt based on beans they’ve bought: Stumptown’s Hundred Mile, a light-roasted batch from Jimma, Ethiopia from Small Planes, Lost Sock’s Western House filter blend, and some dark-roast beans given as a gift. With the Western House, Levine’s profile creator said it aimed to “balance nutty sweetness, chocolate richness, and bright cherry acidity, using a slightly stepped temperature profile and moderate pulse structure.” The resulting profile has worked great, even if the chatbot named it “Cherry Timber.”
Conclusion
Having admitted to themselves that they find something generated by ChatGPT prompts genuinely useful, the author has softened their stance slightly on LLM technology, if not the hype. Used within very specific parameters, with everything second-guessed, they’re getting more comfortable asking chat prompts for formatted summaries on topics with lots of expertise available. The author does their own writing, and they don’t waste server energy on things they can, and should, research themselves.
FAQs
- Q: What is brewshare.coffee?
A: Brewshare.coffee is a tool that gathers both general and bean-based profiles, makes them easy to search and load, and adds optional but quite helpful suggested grind sizes. - Q: Who created the Aiden Profile Creator?
A: The Aiden Profile Creator was created by Gabriel Levine, director of engineering at Leap Inc. - Q: What is the Aiden Profile Creator?
A: The Aiden Profile Creator is a ChatGPT prompt set up with a custom prompt and told to weight certain knowledge more heavily. - Q: How many profiles have been created using the Aiden Profile Creator?
A: As of April 22, nearly 3,600 profiles had passed through Levine’s Aiden.
