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Another example of the differences. pretty unexpected visuals on the right.

I made the one on the left with Figma with the prompt "design a magazine cover for a fashion magazine showing the latest women's 2026 trends", and the one on the right is through the Taste Machine with the same prompt. It's not style transfer or maxing prompt engineering.

As taste gets more expensive, it also forces us to ask what taste actually is, instead of treating it as a magical human trait. I’ve been experimenting with that, and the results suggest it may be more reproducible than we think. Hint: it's the memory that made it work.

There you go, the Taste Machine's attempts on those briefs, they look like a good start for an interesting story!

And that is exactly what the Taste Machine (explained here x.com/chendabo/statu… )does, to stop AI being all correct, and pick a path with genuine design intention and judgement.

@felixleezd @GammaApp Np, sent me any prompts or design briefs, I don’t have a public api or interface for it yet, will run them manually. BTW, the ai first school project is really cool, that’s what designers really needed right now.

@chendabo @GammaApp This looks epic, have to give it a shot. Thanks for sharing it!

This feels like having a designer on demand. I tried the new release of @GammaApp’s Imagine and made graphics for our AI design school. Surprisingly, it has high quality taste. The results are unbelievable.

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This example illustrates my point very well, when everyone including AI is competing within the same direction, a unique taste would take you to a very different path, often results in some form of actual unfair advantage.

@felixleezd about his point on "Design taste is the last unfair advantage", I would phrase it differently after seeing the results from The Taste Machine (details in x.com/chendabo/statu…), human level taste and judgement is indeed similar to intelligence, both will no longer be scarce soon. So design taste is not going to be the last unfair advantag, unfortunately. Despite that, I do believe that unique design taste from unique life experience is still an advantage for designers, we should be competing for being special.

This is a very good example of the point mentioned, it is really hard for models to avoid using the typical tech look when it asked to work with the theme of technology, and the majority of humans would fall of the same "trap". Also the realisation(judgement) that you do not need a lot of fancy data to explain how AI is eating the software. The Taste machine first chose to use a non-tech look and one single diagram to explain the situation. Both are good choices. I'd say it already has the ability to beat us on these.

@mattshumer_ wrote this in his big hit post: A lot of people find comfort in the idea that certain things are safe. That AI can handle the grunt work but can't replace human judgment, creativity, strategic thinking, empathy. I used to say this too. I'm not sure I believe it anymore. --- After building the first working version of the Taste Machine (explained here: x.com/chendabo/statu… ), it seems judgement, creativity, strategic thinking and empathy were all being activated through the influence of taste which is an abstract representation of personal choices or preferences. It is really interesting to see how fast this space is moving.

This one is a good proof of how taste directs choices, instead of using the visual design language of Coke packaging, it uses both the flavour and the mobility of the drink as a key quality to design the tea packaging. This is a smart choice. It checked both sensorial and practical boxes.

This is an interesting example from the Taste Machine, the realism of the image is not just coming from the rendering quality, but mostly on how it chose to tell the story of "excitement", also how it feels that there is a before and an after of what is happening. It actually look like a real photo taken before the race.

Even though I designed the Taste Machine's system, I still don't know how it came up with these combination of design choices in this task. The choice of using a small tailor shop to represent the city, and using lines on the fabric to represent the "claw" concept, then putting the poster inside a transparent garment bag that has the perfect size. Not to mention the colour and mood of the overall look.

A carefully designed memory system adjusts how the model interprets the design brief as if there is a personal choice that guides the decision, and worked surprisingly well. You can see from the comparisons, how model just decides to fall on the most probable directions.

I remember seeing some data on the most used Claude Skills, which is local file editing. There is only so much you can do with it, but with Tokie skills, it seems there are infinite number of things you can do to personalise your folders or workspaces.

One of my favourite is that you can create tools in your folders, and when they are created, these Agent will explore your folder to understand the context more. Then these tools can be reused in the future if you put them in Tokie.