Taste

“Blend will be increasingly important, and everybody talks about taste now, how, like, taste will be the finding front of AI, and behind the buzzword, I think there is a lot of truth to that, where, yes, increasingly everybody will be able to create everything,…”

“I tend to be pretty utilitarian in my view of taste, and, like, if you're able to solve problems faster by making better judgments, like, I think that's, like, the best, like, general proxy I have for taste, and somehow the fact that solving harder problems me…”

“You could learn creativity. You could learn taste. You could learn all those things. It's somewhere in you where you could learn it. Absolutely.”

“If anything, taste, you know, people talk about this all the time, but taste matters more now than ever because AI is about to make average marketing, marketing just unbelievably cheap.”

“No, I mean, and then I think it's crazy to what degree, like, suddenly agency and taste, like, off the charts important now.”

“So, so I do think that everyone kind of becomes full stack when you, when the stack's automated and it's just promptable. And so I, and then it gets down to taste.”

“I think if you don't have taste, then you let AI slop converge to sort of grayness, and everything looks the same, and everything's just like, I think you need to have taste to have sort of An opinion and it stands in the world. This is who we are. This is wha…”

“I don't think that's true on a short-term basis. Humans are the sensor, AI is the actuator. So it's like a human-machine synthesis. What's taste? Taste the sense? And that is what AI can't yet do.”

“With the rise of AI, taste is going to be one of the biggest moats that you could possibly have.”

“If you can create 10,000 images in a minute, the person who can say, no, no, no, not that, that's crap, this wins.”

“Yeah, I mean, it may be that both relationships and taste become even more important because of the volume of information that can be created could create more noise.”

“Forget about decisions on tech stack. Forget about which back end they're using, which front end they're using. That doesn't matter. Quality, taste, design. That's all you need to optimize for in the future that's ahead of us.”

“There's a big difference between taste and creativity and being a virtuoso violinist, right? Like those don't necessarily have to be the same thing. And it's great that, you know, people You know, whatever. Practice violin for three hours a day and like get am…”

“When people say taste, they oftentimes just think about only the visuals. It's like, what is, like, the visual output? I oftentimes, you know, the analogy I have more is, you know, if you think about, like, a restaurant you go into a restaurant, you know, the …”

“But it is, there's a lot of craft, and there's a lot of taste, right, that you accumulate sometimes over decades, right, and I don't think these models really have taste, right”

“So like for me, taste is, is sort of judgment plus curiosity. And the more you can sort of like extend the curiosity branch that improves your judgment, which then builds your taste.”

“We think that one thing that will be irreplaceable is taste. So just defining what do you actually want to build? People usually think about this when they're thinking about the visual aspects of software. I think it's also, there's a taste component to the no…”

“I think if anything, taste is going to become a distinguishing factor in the age of AI, because there's going to be so much drivel that is generated by AI, can be generated by AI, that power is at anyone's fingertips. But truly the companies that are going to …”

“I think we will get to a place where you will be able to be less careful as a software engineer, which right now is an incredibly, incredibly important skill. And yeah, we'll move a little bit from carefulness a little bit more towards taste.”

“Is to surround yourself with beauty surround yourself with like really nicely designed objects can be physical, but also can be the ergonomics of software, right? If you don't tolerate and let in, so like just that noise of like bad designed objects or non, no…”

“We've seen a vast reduction in the cost of distribution of information. And now we're seeing a reduction in the cost of information production. And most of it is slop. And so in this cacophony, How do you stand out? You stand out by having good taste. I think …”

“In a world of hyper-commoditization, where software's commoditized, where content's being commoditized, where like many things are becoming where we are being displaced By technology, I think taste, like having, being an incredible taste maker is actually on…”

“And over time, I also believe that taste and creativity will get more and more important as technology and AI accelerate the pace at which software can be built or content and stories can be created.”

“I think to be a successful game designer, you need inspiration, you need hard work, and you need taste. And of all of those, I think taste is maybe the most important and the hardest to kind of like pin down, but it really is that judgment of knowing, of havin…”

“There is no, Private taste. Taste is always, like, about connection between people. Yeah. A shared language or some conversation that we're having about values and things.”

“When you say a wine taste of strawberries or chocolate or vanilla, it actually smells of those things, right? There's only four, five, or six basic tastes.”