Without taste, everything converges

Tools built with AI all converge on the same look unless you inject your taste. Taste is the differentiator.

Build enough things with AI and you notice they all start to look the same. The tools converge on one default. What's missing is taste, and taste is the one thing they can't hand you.

I proved it to myself trying to generate a single image for a wall in our house—ran it through every model I had, iteration after iteration, and not one of them got it. That's the gap. The models give everyone the same output; your taste is the only part that makes it yours.

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