What matters in the age of AI is taste

To thrive in that world, the skills that matter most are:

- Deep familiarity with the tools

- Staying abreast of changes

- Developing a great intuition for AI tools, where things are going, and how to make use of it

- Resilience and the ability to learn things fast and evolve yourself with technology

I think we’ll realize that the early text-to-image “prompt-based” era of GenAI undermined creativity while the “controls” era unleashed human creativity in unimaginable ways. the tools evolve, but creative vision, precision, taste, and skills will be more vital than ever before.

a world where you can use AI to draw upon the compiled wisdom of an expert that you trust—that is a world we are living in right now, thanks to the emergence of long context models. This should be good news, professionally speaking, for people who do indeed possess wisdom that other people consider valuable.

taste > skills taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI where so much of skills-based productivity is offloaded to compute. makes me think about the development of taste, and how we nurture taste for the next gen of humans.