As I process what AI means for the job description of software developers, I keep coming back to one concept: taste. Now that writing code is no longer a required skill for development (!!), the basic skill becomes prioritizing the tradeoffs that the code needs to match. Does the code have too much structure? Not… Continue reading
Posts by "Brendan Mulholland"
AI-Driven Hyper-Customized UIs: A Practical Roadmap
The tech industry has frequently painted an AI-filled future where interfaces would mold themselves to individual users’ personal preferences, company requirements, situational context, and more. GPT-4o image generation, announced March 25, 2025, finally reveals a practical roadmap to achieve this using existing technology. Context (har har) As background, these new capabilities can generate images with… Continue reading
Code Quality is What You Value
The problem with talking about code quality is that “quality” is subjective. The term implies something to measure or compare against, and that measure is often missing from the conversation.
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