tl;dr: With LLMs collapsing the cost of producing code, the friction that once rationed output—and quietly trained developers' judgment—is gone, flooding the field with "plausible" slop that's fine but not right. The author argues taste, the wordless verdict that rejects the merely adequate, is now the only scarce skill left, but it's invisible on dashboards and offers no competitive speed advantage. The remaining craft is curation: deciding what deserves to exist, and refusing the plausible version even when nothing rewards you for it.