Fiddlers Code
TL;DR PMs are shipping code so help them do it safely. My product managers are shipping code. This has got me thinking about how software engineering is changing in the world of AI. Prior to 2026, you could have a career shipping tickets and writing features. As an industry, we d done a pretty good [ ]
Hi, I m Paula Muldoon a staff software in multimodal GenAI at Zopa Bank in London. Review season is over and if you re like me, you re having the usual existential crisis opportunity to understand what being a staff engineer is. It s very clear that AI coding tools are transforming how we build software, so how [ ]
I’m Paula Muldoon and I’m a staff software engineer at Zopa Bank in London wrangling LLMs into shape for our customers. I’m also a classically trained violinist and I love growing potatoes to break up difficult soil. This post is not written with AI because I like writing. In my last post, Context in LLM Systems [ ]
I’m Paula Muldoon and I’m a staff software engineer at Zopa Bank in London wrangling LLMs into shape for our customers. I’m also a classically trained violinist and I m hoping to grow some purple potatoes for my village s potato competition next year. This post is not written with AI because I like writing. In a previous [ ]
I m Paula Muldoon and I m a staff software engineer at Zopa Bank in London wrangling LLMs into shape for our customers. I m also a classically trained violinist and I recently failed to win any prizes in my village s potato-growing competition. This post is not written with AI because I like writing. Agentic AI is all [ ]
Me: I think I m not good enough at my job. Other person: Oh, yea, imposter syndrome is tough. I ve had this dialogue a few times with various people in the course of my engineering career. It never sat right, and in this blog post I ll pick apart why I think the term imposter syndrome is harmful, [ ]
What is your current programming and musical life? I lead the Acoustic Research Engineering team at Facebook Reality Labs Research the organization within Facebook that researches and develops next generation AR/VR technology. Almost all of my programming these days deals with some form of acoustic and audio signal processing or ML for audio. Given [ ]
What is your current programming and musical life? I am a junior software developer with a tiny startup. They were only two when I got there, now they re 5 including me, with two colleagues in Tunisia and Philippines. Primarily I m getting my teeth into data architecture, building systems for small businesses and automating processes using [ ]
What is your current programming and musical life?I just started as an Artificial Intelligence Apprentice at LinkedIn in July, so I m working and learning full time. Outside of work, I am still studying Machine Learning on my own, so programming and Data Science occupy a large portion of my days. I still make music most [ ]
What is your current programming and musical life? I m currently in the post-bootcamp job-hunting world on a late-stage interview with one company at present and am also onboarding for some TA work with General Assembly. Music-wise, I ve had a surprising amount of session work recently. What is your primary instrument and what age [ ]