Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left (rajnandan.com) AI

The article argues that with AI and LLMs making “competent” first drafts cheap and easy, the real differentiator in tech is judgment and taste—especially the ability to diagnose what’s generic or misleading under real constraints. It warns that relying on AI mainly to generate and humans merely to select outputs risks turning builders into curators rather than authors who hold stakes and guide direction. The piece recommends using AI to generate options quickly, then training a sharper rejection vocabulary through critique and real-world shipping, while keeping authorship for decisions involving responsibility, genuinely new ideas, and choosing what to optimize for.