AI researcher: in the agent era execution is cheap and good taste is the scarce resource
rose_e_wang · x · 2026-10-18
Rose E. Wang argues the old wisdom "ideas are cheap, the devil is in the details" has flipped in the agent era: execution is cheaper and good taste matters more. She believes AI will eventually generate good ideas itself, but taste and agency are what education and work should foster — the better our ability to create, the more our choice of path matters.
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