In the AI slop era, taste is the moat: a practical guide to getting paid for decisions, not output
EXM7777 · x · 2026-09-19
The author lays out a practical guide to making money by cultivating taste in a world flooded with AI slop, defining slop as machine output nobody pushed back on before publishing.
Core argument
- When machines can produce the thing in seconds, the ability to make things (writing, design, development) is devalued, while decision-making — what to make, what's good, what your audience should see — becomes 100x more valuable.
What the piece covers
- What taste has to become over the next decade
- A daily method for rewiring your judgment
- Four concrete ways taste translates into income
Aimed at anyone who writes, publishes, designs, or runs an audience; the author argues this shift is already hitting their income.
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