Taste is the New Technical Skill as Execution Becomes Free
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-19
Tom Doerr argues that LLMs are destroying the market for competent mediocrity. When executing ideas becomes free, the value of the idea itself skyrockets. Payment shifts from typists or decent coders to those who know what is worth typing or coding—making taste the new technical skill. Ironically, this insight was generated by his idea-ranking app, which uses an LLM to compare texts pairwise.
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