Taste Is All That's Left

NotAShelf · 3 weeks ago · 30 ● 2 sources

As AI tools make software creation nearly frictionless, developers can now generate plausible code instantly rather than struggling through months of learning by failure. The shift eliminates the old cost-based filter that naturally selected for quality, placing the burden of judgment—taste—entirely on human discretion rather than market forces or measurable metrics. Without the struggle that built expertise, new developers gain fluency without apprenticeship, while those with refined judgment find it invisible and unrewarded in a market flooded with acceptable mediocrity.