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2026-08-07 / HACKER NEWS'Taste Is All That's Left' Hits 483 Points on HN — The Argument That Effort Was the Filter and AI Removed ItNotAShelf's August 6, 2026 essay argues the scarce skill has moved from making to judging what deserves to exist: the idea-to-artifact distance has collapsed, and effort — which used to ration output invisibly — no longer does. The sharpest claim is that Sturgeon's Law holds constant at 90% mediocrity while output goes infinite, so the noise floor rises without the signal moving, and that taste cannot be absorbed by osmosis because it requires repeatedly failing with bad work. 483 points and 349 comments in under a day, alongside a separate 375-point thread on the same theme, makes this the strongest practitioner-sentiment signal on HN this cycle.

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