Tech Leaders Declare Taste New Core Skill

Tech leaders including Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham and OpenAI president Greg Brockman argued on X this week that "taste" will become a crucial skill as AI automates creation. Supporters like Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht framed taste as an engineering differentiator, while skeptics including Nan Yu and Matt Schumer said AI could learn taste; the debate spawned memes mocking Silicon Valley style.