You Can't Automate Your Way To Good 'Taste'

Look, something strange is happening in this weird new world of ours. The machines are good now. Damn good. They work fast and they work true.

Everything's getting automated. Like, EVERYTHING. You can now build an app while brushing your teeth, launch a website during your coffee break, and create a digital human that looks realer than your cousin Steve (or create 1000 of them).

One person with the right tools can now do what twenty people did before. The machines multiply us. They make us strong. They make us fast.

But here's the thing—the real thing:

You can automate the coding. You can automate the design. You can automate the deployment. You can automate the marketing. You can automate the customer service.

You can buy the best tools. You can subscribe to every premium service that promises to "10x your creative output." But you can't buy that thing—that deep, fundamental knowing of what's good and what isn't.

Bad taste doesn't become good taste just because it's wearing expensive clothes. A thousand AI-generated variations of mediocre is still just mediocre. A million perfectly-rendered wrong choices are still wrong choices.

You can automate the production. You can automate the distribution. You can automate the optimization. But if you don't have that core understanding—that bone-deep sense of quality that comes from years of loving what's good and hating what's bad—you're just building a faster assembly line for mediocrity.

Good taste can't be downloaded. Can't be purchased. Can't be faked.

You can't automate good taste.

You can't automate good taste.

You can't automate good taste.

(Yet.)