Jordi Hays

So yesterday, a former Exa AI Labs founding team member introduced her startup, Taste Labs, whose mission is to end AI slop.

Quote, this requires turning a fuzzy subjective domain into something we can measure and codify.

We're starting with design, her post says.

More specifically, Taste says they're working with Frontier AI Labs to improve their models along Taste lines through data labeling and app layer startups to improve the aesthetics of their products.

This has been a critique of vibe-coded projects.

They all sort of look the same.

Of course, there are examples of really cool projects, but people were starting to say, oh, this has like the vibe code look to it, or this model's not good at front end, et cetera.

Her goal is to fix that.

Ty's post, her post immediately went viral, generating tons of opinions on X and getting over a million views in 24 hours.

People's main complaint is basically you can't program taste.

It's impossible, they say.

But the steel man is that the AI aesthetic, AI's aesthetic output can be improved.

and that it's perfectly reasonable for a startup to try and capitalize on that opportunity.

I want to talk to you about taste, about your feed.

Is it scalable?

Is it not?

Take me through some of the critiques here.

Tell me what resonates with you.

And then I have a take about where the business goes regardless of all of this.

Because the last six months, maybe the last year, it's been like the code word.