What Caught My Eye Culture · Brands · Design · Building Weekly Links by Mike Litman 150+ Sources, 1 Taste Filter Curated, Not Aggregated What Caught My Eye Culture · Brands · Design · Building Weekly Links by Mike Litman 150+ Sources, 1 Taste Filter Curated, Not Aggregated
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When Everything Can Be Built, Taste Becomes the Only Moat
M.G. Siegler channels Steve Jobs to argue that as AI makes building trivially easy, the gap between competent and exceptional comes down to one thing: aesthetic judgement.
The model is not the product. The person deciding what the model should make is the product. If you have taste, you have leverage.
^ said it better than I could
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Top pick: Great Products Are Still Extremely Hard to Build – Even With AI
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Top pick: The Non-Coders Are Shipping Faster Than the Engineers
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