{
  "slug": "copy-the-recipe-not-the-model",
  "title": "Copy the recipe, not the model",
  "summary": "Good AI-made documents come from a sandbox and a playbook, not just a bigger model.",
  "date": "2026-10-09",
  "tags": [
    "AI engineering",
    "Documents"
  ],
  "body": [
    "When Claude makes a PDF, it looks designed. My agent’s first PDFs looked generated. I only had an Azure OpenAI key, and the goal was to get as close to Claude’s output as I could.",
    "The insight was that those documents are not good because of the model alone. They come from a recipe: code running in a sandbox with real document libraries, following a written playbook. A recipe can be copied without copying the model.",
    "So I built the recipe: a Python sandbox, a playbook and helper scripts. Style kits learn a company’s document look from a few samples, as editable lines. Photos come from Google Maps or Creative Commons with credit lines, and when there is no real photo there is no picture."
  ],
  "url": "https://www.thekush.codes/notes/copy-the-recipe-not-the-model",
  "fullPost": "https://www.thekush.codes/blog/claude-quality-documents-on-an-azure-key",
  "author": {
    "name": "Kush Ahuja",
    "url": "https://www.thekush.codes"
  }
}