Couldn’t disagree more. AI is a button that you press and magically get results. The ability to judge the quality of those results is “taste”. Anyone can push

Couldn’t disagree more. AI is a button that you press and magically get results. The ability to judge the quality of those results is “taste”. Anyone can push the button, but not everyone can discern whether the result is a good one or not. That skill is either learned or to some extent inherent in one’s abilities. My example I’ve been thinking about is: what will be the first new, big programming language in the age of LLMs? Theoretically, anyone could go out and make it right now. The skills and expertise required are well-encoded within all of the frontier models. The thing is, without taste, the language devolves to a useless state rather quickly. On smaller scales, I’ve seen this with API design and even object oriented design. I’ve also seen it in AI generated images and music: devoid of taste, and numbingly facile and generic. Edit: not to toot my own horn, but “numbingly facile and generic” funny enough is probably a phrase that an LLM would never create without significant prompting to refine writing style.