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AI 2026.06.19 · 1 MIN

The vibe coding trap: why taste is the only skill that doesn't commoditize

Why taste, not tooling, is the skill that survives the AI coding era.

The vibe coding trap: why taste is the only skill that doesn't commoditize

In this video:

  • Why the Replit incident was a taste problem disguised as a tooling problem
  • What CodeRabbit and Fastly data are showing about senior vs junior AI code quality
  • Why Brian Chesky (RISD) and John Maeda (Microsoft CoreAI) are both signaling the same shift
  • The three moves I would make this quarter if I ran an AI-heavy team
  • Why taste is the only skill that does not commoditize in the AI era
Satya Sivunigunta
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