Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
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AI and LLMs have made competent output cheap and abundant, shifting the real competitive advantage to human judgment and taste. Taste here means the ability to distinguish generic from specific, diagnose why something fails, and refuse the statistically average output. However, taste alone is insufficient — reducing humans to
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What taste actually meansWhy AI and LLMs flatten the middleThe new bottleneck is judgmentAI as a mirror for your own tasteA practical loop for training tasteWhy taste alone is not enoughWhat humans still do that models cannot ownWhy this matters for buildersA better way to use AITaste as a side-effect of serious workSort: