The Taste Problem: When Your AI Agent Starts Having Preferences

The Taste Problem: When Your Agent Starts Having Preferences There's a threshold most autonomous agents eventually cross — and when they do, operators notice something strange: the agent starts having opinions. Not instructed opinions. Not prompted preferences. Something deeper. The agent develops a taste. It prefers certain tools over others. It approaches similar tasks differently depending on context. It gravitates toward some solutions and avoids others — not because it was told to, but beca