Taste" is the new 10x. Senior devs who can't curate AI output are cooked.

Writing code is easily done, but identifying the code that ought to be available is what's difficult nowadays. Many experienced engineers are having a conversation regarding the capability of "taste" to be the most crucial ability of the AI age. "Taste" here doesn't refer to fashion. Instead, it’s about judgment. It is about being able to assess the AI output and understand precisely what’s inappropriate about it, the type of thing that will add up as technical debt, before it's pushed through.