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Tue, April 27Front-End & Experience EngineeringAI-Native Software
Powerful tools such as Claude Code and Bob are making it possible for more people to build what they want. But having access to better tools does not necessarily mean that everyone will build great products.
In this practical, hands-on session, you will explore the science of taste through peer-reviewed research and examine what makes great products. Through research and a live demonstration, you will learn how to better understand and refine your own taste as an engineer.
What You Will Learn
What peer-reviewed research can teach us about taste
How taste influences what makes a great product
How to understand and refine your own taste as an engineer
Who Should Attend
Software Engineers, Developers, Technical Leads, and practitioners interested in improving how they evaluate and build products.
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Tejas Kumar is an AI Engineer at IBM, based in Berlin, Germany. He has been building on the web for over 25 years, and before IBM he worked at Spotify, G2i, Vercel, Xata as Director of Developer Relations, and DataStax, which IBM acquired. He is the best selling author of Fluent React, published by O'Reilly (ISBN 9781098138714), a book about how React works internally. He hosts ConTejas Code, a weekly long form podcast with 98 episodes. He has given 80 recorded talks at 64 events, starting with a TEDxYouth talk in Doha in 2012 called "Papercuts Can Kill" and speaking at conferences since 2018. He is also an angel investor and advisor to early stage startups, 3 of the 6 he has backed since acquired, by CoreWeave, the Linux Foundation and Supabase, and he backs early stage founders with money, with advice, or with both.
