Many have concluded that, due to AI's rise, what matters most now is taste. I agree that it matters, but what seems to matter most is having good references and being able to call on them at appropriate moments. The AI can do lots of things, but it has to be guided well, and the more it has to go from that is coherent with the current task, the better a job it will do. A collection (either physical, on the computer, or in your mind) of relevant references beats taste. You could say that only those with good taste will be able to have good collections, but I kind of disagree because the AI actually has pretty good taste a lot of the time, so it can cover where the user doesn't. Perhaps the collection is a function of a yet more general property, "vision." Having a clear vision of the project and what is to be achieved is what matters most... yes, maybe. This poses a problem, however, given that much of creative work is discovered as the artifact is built, so while the vision has to be clear, it also has to be flexible, unless you're so sure of what is to be built that it doesn't change much as it is built. Well, either way, I don't think taste is what matters most.