Stephen M. Yoss, CPA

My Dinner Planner Kept Suggesting Corned Beef in August. So I Taught It to Have Taste.

Part two: how I grounded an AI dinner planner in real recipes, and turned my family's palate into 384 numbers the system could actually learn. A few weeks ago I wrote about Yossio Meals, the self-hosted dinner planner I built to kill the 5 p.m. "what's for dinner?" conversation. The thesis of that piece was a division of labor: AI drafts, humans decide, code executes. The AI proposes a plan as schema-validated JSON, deterministic Python does the math and the shopping list,…

Stephen M. Yoss, CPA 2026-08-03 15 min read

A comprehensive dark mode dashboard showing a calendar view of meals for the week, a 'Next Meal' feature with a pizza photo, and a consolidated shopping list on the right.

I Lost a War With a Grocery Bot and Built a Better Dinner Planner Anyway

How I built a self-hosted AI dinner planner that actually works by combining Python logic with LLM creativity.

Software EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceHome Automation Stephen M. Yoss, CPA 2026-07-14 9 min read