Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

If you're properly bitter-lesson-pilled then why wouldn't better models continue to develop and improve taste and discernment when it comes to design, development, and just better thinking overall?

Re: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

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Post by echelon » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #4

Extremely ironic piece of slop.

No - at face value, our work has diminished value. The entire supply and demand economics of our careers is changing in the blink of an eye.

There are people trying to figure out what this means and where to create value. "Taste is the only moat" is one such hypothesis. "Senior engineers will be fine" is another.

Everything is super frothy right now and we're in for a wild 2026.

Re: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

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Post by allears » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

And if anybody knows about good taste, it's techies, right?

Re: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

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Post by sparker72678 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

gmaster1440 wrote: post #5

If you're properly bitter-lesson-pilled then why wouldn't better models continue to develop and improve taste and discernment when it comes to design, development, and just better thinking overall?

At least in part because some of Taste is fashion.

Re: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

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Post by ibero » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46

evergreen.

Re: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

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Post by wavemode » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 4:15 PM UTC

gmaster1440 wrote: post #5

If you're properly bitter-lesson-pilled then why wouldn't better models continue to develop and improve taste and discernment when it comes to design, development, and just better thinking overall?

I think that would imply the creation of AGI (i.e. something as intelligent or more intelligent than mankind), which many consider to be science fiction at this point.

> bitter-lesson-pilled

The "bitter lesson" doesn't imply that AGI is coming, all it says is that letting AIs learn on their own yields better results than directly teaching them things.