VibeChefField notes by John Hughes Wilcox

Field notes · Omaha, Nebraska 6 pieces published

Notes from
the pass.

This is where I write down what I’m learning. Agent systems, automation, the occasional trading post-mortem — mostly about what breaks and why.

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02The writing

What I’m
working out.

Notes on cooking, software, and where the two meet. Newest first.

Vibecoding

What shipped: the weekend of August 6–August 10

A short roundup of 7 things that changed across hospitality tech, AI, and building software — the weekend of August 6–August 10.

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Vibecoding

What shipped: the week of August 2–August 7

A short roundup of 6 things that changed across hospitality tech, AI, and building software — the week of August 2–August 7.

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Vibecoding

What shipped: the week of July 30–August 4

A short roundup of 6 things that changed across hospitality tech, AI, and building software — the week of July 30–August 4.

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Digital markets

The handoff that never happened

A position closed 55 seconds after it opened. It took me seven hours of logs to work out that it had never really opened at all.

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Kitchen ops

Mise en place is systems thinking

Twenty years of setting up a station taught me more about building software than any tutorial did. The overlap is not a metaphor.

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AI for operators

Benchmarks you can actually run

Most AI security numbers are unfalsifiable. Here's the standard I hold my own project to, and why it made the numbers worse.

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What this
covers.

Restaurant technology is the pillar. Everything else feeds back into it.

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