随着生成式AI工具的普及，软件工程和创意工作的本质正在发生深刻转变。[1]一篇在Hacker News上发表的文章指出，AI技术使得从想法到成品的距离"几乎崩溃到零"，曾经定义整个工艺的创作成本消失殆尽。[1]在这个新时代，真正稀缺的技能不再是制造，而是选择——即对好坏的判断力，也就是"品味"。[1]
文章强调，品味是"一种压缩的、难以言传的判断，你做出这种判断的速度超过了你能够解释的速度"。[1]与生成式AI提供的即时廉价创意相对，品味是通过缓慢而艰辛的方式积累而来的："你制造出不好的东西，被迫与之共存，它在你面前失败，你的某个部分就会记住这次失败。"[1]正如斯特金定律所言，"百分之九十的一切都是垃圾"，而品味则是不断说"不，再来一次"的能力，将看似可行的作品退回，因为可行并不等于正确。[1]这一观点揭示了一个困境：当创作中的摩擦和失败被移除时，新一代创作者将失去建立真正判断力的机会。[1]
The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools has fundamentally transformed the nature of creative work, according to a discussion on Hacker News.[1] As generative AI has made the creation of artifacts cheaper and more instantaneous, the traditional barriers to production have largely dissolved, collapsing "the idea-to-artifact distance, the one that defined the entire craft, to almost nothing."[1] This shift has elevated a single, previously undervalued capability to critical importance: the ability to judge quality.
Taste—defined as "the compressed, wordless verdict you reach faster than you can justify"—has become the scarce resource in creative fields.[1] Unlike the mechanical act of production, which AI now handles efficiently, the discernment required to distinguish good work from merely plausible work cannot be automated or rushed. The ability to say "no, again" and to "send the plausible thing back because plausible is not the same as right" now represents "the scarce act."[1] This judgment develops through a slow, difficult process: creators must produce imperfect work, confront its failures firsthand, and internalize those lessons over time.[1] As the argument suggests, taste is built "the slow, stupid, humiliating way: you make something bad, you are forced to live with it, it fails in front of you, and some part of you files the failure away."[1]
The consequence is that a generation of creators who rely on AI to eliminate friction and failure may find themselves without the experiential foundation necessary to develop reliable judgment.[1] In an era where production has become nearly frictionless, the capacity to choose well—rather than to make—has become the defining skill of professional creative work.[1]