As execution becomes free, taste replaces technical skill
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-19
LLMs are destroying the market for competent mediocrity by making the execution of ideas free. Value is shifting to the ideas themselves rather than execution (typing or coding); 'taste' is becoming the new essential technical skill.
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