On Monday night, Ana Toniuc showed our 3rd Space Bucharest AI Circle what it looks like when you walk into the kitchen.
Her analogy: Claude is one kitchen with six stations.
Ana Toniuc Taught Claude as a Kitchen with Six Stations
Chat Is Talking to the Chef
Quick back and forth. This is where most people stop.
Projects Are the Kitchen Itself
Your files, your instructions and your context are all on the shelf, ready to use.
Connectors Are the Knives and Appliances
Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Notion. They're the tools the chef can actually reach.
Skills Are Recipes You Write Once
Write one once, and the chef makes it the same way every time.
Plugins Are the Meal Kit
Several recipes, the tools, and an order card on top. As Ana put it, "It's not one employee. It's a whole department." If she hired someone at 3rd Space tomorrow, she'd hand them my podcast plugin and say: "This is how we make the podcast."
Artifacts Are the Finished Plate
A web page, a document or a diagram you can share, come back to and keep improving.
The Room Started Cooking
Then the room started cooking:
- Octavia's CV-summary recipe turned six hours of work into 5 minutes.
- Andreea is turning her university lectures into a clickable page for her students.
- I'm using Claude to finally learn Romanian: 100 verbs in 90 days from a study page Claude built for me.
- Irina said it best: "Combine your skills and you've created a specialist who knows how to do your job."
People Are Building Their Own Kitchens
None of us are chefs. Most of us had never stepped past the takeaway window.
Four weeks in, people are building their own kitchens, some Mondays in person in Bucharest and some Mondays online. And they're borrowing each other's recipes.
When you join a group like the 3rd Space Bucharest AI Circle, you stop learning alone and start building alongside people who'll share what's working.