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Jason Liu's mental models

4 claims Jason Liu made fit 4 mental models. Most often: Feedback loops, Less, but better, Trade-offs. Everything they said here.

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Feedback loops

Shorten the loop between doing and finding out; whatever a loop rewards is what you become.

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A recurring AI workflow improves more through ongoing user feedback than by being fully specified upfront.

  1. Jason Liu Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG… This is why I like the thread version more than a generic scheduled report. The brief improves as you complain about it. Six levels of complexity in a Codex morning briefjxnl.co · 18 May 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThis is why I like the thread version more than a generic scheduled report. The brief improves as you complain about it.

    ↗Six levels of complexity in a Codex morning briefjxnl.co

    18 May 2026

Less, but better

Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.

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Trade-offs

Every choice gives something up, so name the cost; and check, because some trade-offs everyone assumes are not real.

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AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.

  1. Jason Liu Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG… It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there. If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co · 5 Jul 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsIt gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there.

    ↗If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co

    5 Jul 2026

Value moves to what stays scarce

When something becomes cheap and plentiful, the value moves to whatever is still rare next to it.

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AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.

  1. Jason Liu Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG… As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself. If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co · 5 Jul 2026All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsAs AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.

    ↗If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co

    5 Jul 2026