Taste-Skill - gives your AI good taste. stops the AI from generating boring, generic slop
Agentic Taste Modeling | lab notes #8
We built a forecasting benchmark to test how well agents predict what you like.
Popmelt — Design copilots for AI agents
Our Taste models encode design expertise and philosophy, giving AI agents instant access to a curated catalog of aesthetic knowledge. Unlike traditional templates and design systems, our imprints are AI-native and guided by universal principles. This means agents can apply them to any interface scenario, not just predefined layouts and elements. They're also customizable and extensible, letting you build quickly without falling into the cookie-cutter UI library trap.
On Taste, Effort & Curiosity - again
When AI collapses how long it takes to ship, what’s left is judgment, experimentation, and knowing what not to build.
Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left
AI makes competent output cheap. That makes taste more valuable, but also more incomplete. The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.
Alt-Pop Trickster 1010Benja Is Not Scared to Admit He’s Using Generative AI
“If you have it broken down as organic versus AI, the AI is gonna win our world. The good guy doesn’t win this one.”
Ars Technica's policy on generative AI
How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.
Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end
In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.
Which AI brands have the most satisfied users?
ARC-AGI-3
ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark for AI agents—play as humans and build agents that learn in novel environments.
Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters
As builders, we need to start focusing on AX or “agent experience” — the holistic experience AI Agents will have as the user of a product or platform.
The Rise of Agent Experience (AX)
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.”
upskill with ai
ideas on how to learn and grow using ai but not necessarily 100% ai generated slop learning
LLMs reward expertise
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building
explain-diff
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye
Cognitive Surrender
AI Dry July: Aborted