New comicEpisode 004Aug 26, 2026

Taste Manager

Panel 1/2 — Boss: “AI will eventually automate everything, but it'll never compete with my superior taste.”

Stuff that inspired this week's comic

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer

OpenAI’s head of product design on why this is the best time in history to be a designer, where humans still beat AI, and how to escape the overwhelm

Ideas are the new bottleneck. @akshaynathan_, Core Product Engineering, @OpenAI, argues that once anyone can build, the constraint moves.

Build Got Cheap. Judgment Did Not.

When configuration replaces code and AI drafts the artifacts, the bottleneck stops being how fast you can build and becomes what you decide to build and whether anyone actually uses it.

AI Product Managers, if you want to keep your job, please understand: The one skill that matters more than ever is judgement. Taste. AI sense.

We're in the middle of the second renaissance where proof of work replaces the resume, an audience replaces the employer, and taste replaces credentials.