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2026-04-08 / HACKER NEWS
'Good Taste Is the Only Real Moat Left' — Essay on Human Judgment in the Age of AI Draws 195-Comment HN Debate
Raj Nandan Sharma's essay argues that as AI makes competent output cheap, the real moat is pairing taste with context, constraints, and willingness to build. LLMs are pattern-compression engines that tend toward the safe center of the distribution — taste becomes valuable when it moves from vibe to diagnosis. The essay warns that reducing humans to selecting from AI outputs risks turning builders into reviewers of a machine-led process. 247 points and 195 comments on HN — an unusually high engagement ratio.
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