I'd agree with the OP you are responding, what he means is that this isn't just about taste. It's that the code, while it works, and the text, while it has the

I'd agree with the OP you are responding, what he means is that this isn't just about taste. It's that the code, while it works, and the text, while it has the ideas in it, is still not to the level of a human author. It's not that it isn't tasteful, in the sense of having the flair of specific author X, but it is verbose, goes around the point to get to it, etc. Taste seems to imply an art, but I don't think we're at the point of cleverness, of LLM innovating a new beautiful programming paradigm or pattern out of immaculate taste for code. We're just talking more basic, even bad devs have more terseness, more clear intent in their prose and code, etc. It's "good enough" for many use-cases, but it could be better, even before expecting the most beautifully clear code from the best devs out there, it has not reached the level of the average one in readability and clarity of expression (both code and prose). That annoys the author, he has to intervene manually to trim all the fat, and therefore not "good enough".