TASTE IS NOT A MOAT

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

AI is progressing fast, quickly absorbing tasks once thought to require human taste and judgment, turning taste into a decaying "alpha" rather than a durable "moat." The baseline of AI capabilities is rising so fast that human taste is valuable only relative to what AI can already produce, an advantage that constantly diminishes. Consequently, the human role is shifting towards "taste extraction," where individuals articulate and encode their judgment into AI systems to steer outputs and maintain leverage.