Great Product Taste
Product taste is the last moat when AI can execute anything.
Part of the Great Tastes series on LearningFirst. In an AI era where execution is increasingly automated, Product Taste — the judgment to decide what to build, why it matters, and how to specify it — becomes the core skill. This collection explores what Product Taste is, how to recognize it in the wild, how to define and measure it, how to develop it, how it operates in the AI era, its different levels, and its most common traps.
Collection Outline
What Is Product Taste?
Defining a skill most people confuse with opinion or intuition.
How to Recognize It (In the Wild)
The signals you can read in a product before reading a single review.
How to Define & Measure It
Turning taste from "I know it when I see it" into something you can argue about.
How to Develop It
The consumption diet, habits, and practice that build taste over time.
Taste in the AI Era Specifically
Why taste becomes the core skill when execution is automated.
Taste at Different Levels
Feature, product, team, and founder taste — four different skills, often confused.
Taste Traps & Failures
Consensus, trend-chasing, feature creep, and the power-user trap.