Coding is cheap, taste is not

What coding agents do is make exploring your ideas accessible even when you are not al all-rounder in design, coding, administration, and other tasks associated with making “something” involving software. It smoothes over gaps in knowledge, allows you to scale up much faster than ever before, it even short-circuits the chores like infrastructure, and speak nothing of the reduction in time, and fast iteration cycles.

As many who have been chasing the highs with turbo-charged coding agents have realized, keeping the coding agents fed, and humming all the time is very hard, and it is already the bottleneck for enthusiastic adopters of AI coding.

Yes! you have run through your idea backlog and built a lot of handy, cool, and even some really useful stuff that were on your yakshaves list, and at the very least you have built a ton of automation, and tools that will make your work easy, and enjoyable. But the real question for creators is - who else is going to use the stuff you are building? What will entice them to use it? What advantage do you have over thousands of other enthusiastic creators (not only limited to “coders” anymore)? Is it taste? is it the ability to sell the idea? is it access to a superior distribution channel? Whatever it is, the winners are going to be the ones that are actively in the arena - building, experimenting, talking to potential users, sweating the details, and keep growing the “big picture” in their heads.

Inspired by Agents make building cheap but taste is still expensive. post Jo Bergum.

I use “cheap” in the sense of being readily available.