{"id":196953,"date":"2026-03-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:30:17","slug":"why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/infinite-scroll\/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste\">Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/infinite-scroll\/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/infinite-scroll\/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newyorker.com\">www.newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Silicon Valley has introduced the term &#8220;taste&#8221; as a new buzzword in the tech world, emphasizing its importance in the AI age.<\/li>\n<li>Influential technologists, like Paul Graham and Koen Bok, assert that &#8220;great taste&#8221; is crucial for developing successful products.<\/li>\n<li>A.I.-driven tools aim to enhance users\u2019 sense of personal taste by curating content and recommendations based on individual preferences.<\/li>\n<li>The concept of taste has a pragmatic function among tech entrepreneurs; it allegedly determines profitability by discerning what products will be successful.<\/li>\n<li>The focus on tasteful decision-making is significant as AI democratizes technology, pushing companies to rely on unique taste to stand out.<\/li>\n<li>The notion of taste carries generational connotations, reminiscent of the hipster culture that preferred artisanal and lo-fi products, now co-opted by corporate entities.<\/li>\n<li>A.I. companies attempt to appeal to a liberal humanistic view of technology by associating themselves with taste, despite the automation threat posed by their tools.<\/li>\n<li>The term &#8220;taste-washing&#8221; describes A.I. companies&#8217; efforts to give their automated technologies a liberal humanistic allure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/infinite-scroll\/why-tech-bros-are-now-obsessed-with-taste Publish Date: 2026-03-18 06:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/69b9c1d3870a1fdcad172345\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/Taste_final.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196955,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196953\/revisions\/196955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}