AI exposes people with no taste

Before AI, if you didn't have a good eye or you didn't want to put in the work, nobody really knew because you probably just didn't create anything. The technical skills to create anything were too hard to learn, so you just stayed on the sidelines and kept your bad ideas to yourself.

But now the gate is open and the barrier to making things is a prompt away so we are seeing what everyone is actually capable of and it is honestly revealing a lot of laziness or bad taste or a bit of both because people are posting things that look very AI generated.

Just because it looks kind of presentable doesn't mean you should share it. The fact that you accepted the first thing the machine gave you tells me everything I need to know. How you do one thing is how you do everything.

But there is a massive flip side to this that is actually incredible because for the curious person this technology is a force multiplier. If you actually have a vision and you are motivated to put it out in the wild, AI doesn't replace you, it just makes you execute faster. Think about the guy who has the most incredible idea for a software product. He has been using apps his whole life and has built an eye for what looks good and what doesn't. He knows exactly how a button should feel when you click it and he knows exactly how the user flow should work because he has impeccable taste. Ten years ago this same person was stuck because he didn't know how to code, but today that barrier is gone. He can use these tools to build the exact thing he sees in his head because his taste is guiding the machine. He's not outsourcing his thinking to a machine, he's vocalizing his vision for a machine to execute on. This is a world apart from people who outsource their thinking to an LLM. The results are what tell us.

The barrier to entry might be gone but the barrier to quality is still exactly where it always was. You still need to have an actual vision and you still need to care enough to refine what the machine gives you. All AI did was remove the technical excuses. It cleared the way for the people who were always curious but just needed a way to get the ideas out of their heads, but in the same vein it's simultaneously exposing the people who just want the reward without doing any of the real thinking.