Taste matters

Access to frontier models equalizes raw capability. What does not equalize is selection: what to build, what to constrain, what to refuse, what to ship.

Taste is product management under another name—judgment about quality, risk, and fit. In agentic systems, taste shows up as evaluation, tool design, and the refusal to automate nonsense.

Human intelligence remains the department of taste. Hire for it. Design processes that protect it.