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Taste as a system, not a vibe

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How I encode product taste into prompts, checklists, and review rituals so AI-built interfaces don't all look the same.

Taste doesn't survive as a vibe in an agent workflow. It has to become a system: examples, anti-examples, checklists, and review gates.

Otherwise everything averages out

Otherwise every interface drifts toward the same plausible default — the average of the training set dressed up as your brand.

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Jason Lea

AI product builder. Thoughts, experiments and lessons from building with AI — and shipping real products across comparison, tools, and marketplaces.

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