What Kent C. Dodds thinks about taste

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Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

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1. 24 Sept 2026

   Our readingAgents are good at producing output but not at judging which output is worth producing in the first place.

   Their wordsAgents are really good at output now, and they're getting better fast. What they're not good at is knowing which output is worth producing in the first place.

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