A coder used AI to rank which tech companies offer the best food at work. Check out the winners.

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Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. AI-generated summary Summaries are generated by an AI model trained on Business Insider's articles. AI may make mistakes or provide inaccurate/incomplete information. We're unable to load that answer right now. Please try again. What is "vibe coding"? Who is Riley Walz? What are the challenges of AI projects? How does AI impact data accuracy? How does Lunches.fyi work? A new side project, Lunches.fyi, takes the AI tooling craze in a lighter direction, ranking tech companies not by market cap, but by cafeteria quality. Loading audio narration... It was built by coding prankster Riley Walz in about an hour using voice-dictated commands into OpenAI's Codex (a task he says might previously have taken 20+ hours).The site scrapes publicly available tech company menus and uses AI to categorize and score meals. Early results crowned Nvidia a surprise leader, serving everything from "truffle mushroom pizza" to leafy greens worthy of its stock performance. But the experiment also highlights a familiar truth: AI is only as good as the data it's built on. Replit CEO Amjad Masad publicly questioned his company's low protein ranking, prompting Walz to uncover a bug: missing nutrition data that had defaulted to zero.Sorry for the protein slander! Some menus didn't have nutritional facts, so the script assumed there were 0 grams of protein in all of Replit's dishes. Just fixed. The joys of vibe coding...— Riley Walz (@rtwlz) March 10, 2026 Fixing the error quickly changed the results. It's a small, fun project, but a sharp reminder: AI breaks without quality data. You can check out how tech companies rank, over that the website: Lunches.fyi.Sign up for BI's Tech Memo newsletter here. Reach out to me via email at abarr@businessinsider.com.