As AI Handles 'Making It Work,' Engineers Ask: Can Taste Actually Be Learned?
MoudieQaha · reddit · 2026-11-03
A software engineer starts a Reddit discussion: he used to only care about whether things worked, but as AI increasingly handles 'making it work,' he finds the most important thing is how things look — lately he's been searching for design skills and prompts to make AI output look less like AI slop. He's frustrated that people outside the AI bubble are still amazed by the most basic AI design.
He earnestly asks designers: how do you guarantee taste? Is good design luck, talent, or are there principles? Is it subjective or are there objective elements? He also empathizes with artists' anti-AI movement, drawing a parallel to how AI coding broke his sense of programming as art. A sincere thread reflecting engineers' shifting values in the AI era.
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