The Developer Owns the UX. The AI Owns the Code.

Short summary

A developer shares how building BeadGen—a photo-to-bead-pattern converter—taught him that while AI excels at code implementation, human judgment must own the user experience. The tool uses Gemini for code generation and Median Cut color quantization, but the key insight is the division of labor: AI as implementer, developer as experience owner. User feedback from his mom (requesting No Gradient Mode) proved more valuable than AI suggestions.

• •AI handles code implementation; developer must own UX and all experience decisions
• •Built BeadGen using Gemini AI, discovered the developer-AI labor split is the real product philosophy
• •User feedback drives features more effectively than AI generation—stay opinionated and involved

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.