I wrote about this a few months back. Rick Rubin is famous for this. I do think it is something that can be trained though, it just needs a lot more context. Taste builds over time through lots of unit tests, through lots of content writing, through an accumulation of product decisions. It’s hard to put it in the individual spec, but it can be teased out of 100 project specs. And when you get to that scale the AI starts to do it pretty well.

sesm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Rick Rubin told Anderson Cooper he has no technical ability. Doesn't play instruments. Can't work a mixing board.

If you watch his interview on Rick Beato's channel, this myth will fall apart. He plays guitar, had his own punk rock band and his guitar playing is featured on some high-profile records he produced. Also, he has a lot of practical experience with all kinds of studio equipment.

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timroman 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That’s exactly it. His taste isn’t in any one thing. It’s the esoteric and accumulated from a variety of things. You can’t package it up. That’s the point on the project specs. I can never get it right in one, but the arc over 100 becomes visible. Especially to an LLM that has the capacity to intake and understand that.

	▲	pixl97 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>You can’t package it up. Well, you can package it up, otherwise Rick wouldn't exist.

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themgt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is exactly it - the ultimate skill now is to be Rick Rubin with an LLM. Not a comfortable transition as a coder.