Writing on taste.

When a tool becomes good enough that everyone has access to it, the tool stops being the advantage — the differentiator moves to how you combine it with everything else.

Full spec-driven verification only earns its cost where four properties hold at once: deterministic, calculable, enumerable, and objectively provable.

The bottleneck between having taste and shipping something that reflects it used to be execution speed.

Work that mainly produces data to justify a decision was never the actual contribution — it was cover, and AI now does that work faster than any analyst.

As AI makes coding accessible to anyone, the scarce resource stops being technical skill and becomes domain knowledge — years in an industry that no AI shortcut compresses.

Three capabilities remain distinctly human as models take over the rest: aspire, or setting the right goal; judge, applying values and context; and create, generating truly orthogonal ideas.