"Tech leaders from Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham to OpenAI president Greg Brockman are posting about "taste." As life becomes automated with AI, they say, having good taste will become more important. Others on X have memed the discourse, pointing out some of Silicon Valley's bland taste in style. Good news, connoisseurs - your judgment may be highly prized in the AI age."
""When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make," Graham wrote on X. This wasn't Graham's first time writing about the importance of taste; in his post over the weekend, he linked to an old essay of his from 2002, titled "Taste for Makers," and he also wrote about the topic again in 2021. Then, OpenAI's president weighed in. Will good taste get you a job? OpenAI president Greg Brockman went even stronger, declaring, "Taste is a new core skill.""
Tech leaders and engineers contend that as AI automates production, human taste will become a crucial differentiator. When anyone can generate products, the important factor becomes which creations people choose to keep and promote. Industry figures labeled taste a core or engineering-level skill and encouraged cultivating judgment as teams manage more agents and make more decisions. Commentary on social platforms included both support and satire, with memes highlighting bland Silicon Valley aesthetics. Some engineers emphasized that AI can produce anything, but human taste determines what is worth retaining, while commentators noted that the concept of taste remains elusive.
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