--- title: No Skill. No Taste. | daily.dev description: A veteran developer with 20+ years of experience argues that LLMs haven't lowered the real barrier to building meaningful software — taste. While AI tools make... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/no-skill-no-taste--3ntuxfpkw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: No Skill. No Taste. | daily.dev og:description: A veteran developer with 20+ years of experience argues that LLMs haven't lowered the real barrier to building meaningful software — taste. While AI tools make... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/no-skill-no-taste--3ntuxfpkw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3NTUXfPkW.png og:image:alt: No Skill. No Taste. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # No Skill. No Taste. **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A veteran developer with 20+ years of experience argues that LLMs haven't lowered the real barrier to building meaningful software — taste. While AI tools make it easier to generate code, they amplify the existing problem of people overestimating their taste and skill. The flood of derivative, poorly conceived vibe-coded apps on platforms like Hacker News is framed not as a sin of using LLMs, but of lacking the taste and skill to clear a minimum threshold of quality. The author draws a parallel to the crypto hype cycle and predicts the noise will taper as people face disappointment and learn proper etiquette. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-has-no-wisdom-and-neither-will-you-xjqakc5h0) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway.](https://daily.dev/posts/the-llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway--02xhbt7xl) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/no-skill-no-taste--3ntuxfpkw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"No Skill. No Taste.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/no-skill-no-taste--3ntuxfpkw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/no-skill-no-taste--3ntuxfpkw"},"datePublished":"2026-02-20T17:58:13.848Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T05:53:04.189Z","description":"A veteran developer with 20+ years of experience argues that LLMs haven't lowered the real barrier to building meaningful software — taste. While AI tools make...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9f859da4526c0586cee29fdc4286a107?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9f859da4526c0586cee29fdc4286a107?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/no-skill-no-taste--3ntuxfpkw","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,vibe-coding","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"No Skill. No Taste."}]} ```