AI & taste
AI makes it easy to ship faster. It also makes it easy to ship worse.
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The AI taste gap
AI can write code that compiles. It can't tell you whether the result feels right.
Visual slop signals
Four signals that mark an interface as AI-generated before a user can name them
Editing AI output
The quality of an AI-generated interface is determined by the edit, not the generation
The context trick
Better references beat better prompts. Show the model what good looks like.
Stealing taste at scale
Extract the decisions behind a design, not the pixels
The last mile
AI generates the 80%. The last 20% is what users remember.