>When your food is already there, you can pick the exact second you want to eat lunch

Yes but you have to spend time making it beforehand dumbass. (Not saying it's not fiscally irresponsible to get delivery for lunch every day, but you're obviously missing the point of the convenience)

I was already making the food - That's why there's leftovers. The marginal time needed to have leftovers is not a significant increase when already making food anyway.

I understand the convenience, and I'm explaining that if you are smart enough to plan ahead once in a while, convenience is overblown.

> AI or not, ordering any food delivered takes time to deal with and collect.

It is few taps in an app and going out for it when it arrives. Literally. And while you are at work anyway. Cooking, shopping and packing take more time - and at the time when you could have been doing something more pleasurable (like chilling with netflix).

Only when framed that way. Different strokes for different folks. Some people actually enjoy cooking. Being in the room and providing for people. Thinking about the recipe and how it came out this time vs last time, and what to change next time to make it just so. Being taken to a Michelin star restaurant is an experience that I will never forget.

>like chilling with netflix

For me cooking is meditative enough that it can be included in "chilling with netflix". :D

Meal prep takes your time. Meal delivery is asynchronous. If you don't have the time to meal prep, then you don't.