It has always been about taste. In all my years in industry, that has never not been true. AI isn’t suddenly making taste important. It’s shortening the time b

It has always been about taste. In all my years in industry, that has never not been true. AI isn’t suddenly making taste important. It’s shortening the time between someone’s product judgment and its contact with reality. Previously, bad taste could hide in a fog of war: technical delays, market shifts, implementation tradeoffs, changing budgets, and shifting priorities. By the time the product reached users, causality to how much 'taste mattered' was murky. Now, we can see more clearly (and much earlier) whether the judgment behind a product creates value. AI (and it's usage in this context) makes it harder to hide bad taste. Through that lens, I think this is a good thing.