TASTE CANNOT BE DELEGATED

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

AI and organizations share the same core limitation: both are good at identifying preferences but cannot replace human judgment. While AI can recognize patterns and predict what people are likely to prefer, it lacks the context, intent, and responsibility needed to decide what should exist, and organizations often undermine strong design decisions by optimizing for consensus instead of ownership. The future of design lies not in generating more options, but in combining taste, judgment, and leadership to recognize quality, make difficult decisions, and create work that goes beyond optimizing the present.