I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9

This article was written with the assistance of AI. If that bothers you, stop reading here. The numbers are real: every score comes from the ten training runs described below, and the full run log is in the linked knife.day write-up.

I like to cook, and somewhere along the way that turned into an obsession with high-end chef's knives. So I scrape the Reddit threads where people argue about them and pull out every brand, model and steel they mention, to see what is getting bought and argued about.