The joke is that the person "saying" this is wearing their "I'm a rational, independent thinker!" tech uniform (expensive Nordic outdoors wear, so practical, so smart, so active, Vimes' boot theory, et c, not like those clowns in business wear, I'm interested in practicality not signaling, that's why I'm spending so much money signaling so hard about how rational I am).
replyThey are visibly displaying a complete lack of personal taste, instead wearing the SV equivalent of an outdated-cut, off-the-rack navy blue (or even black, LOL) business suit.
The joke is that the message "good taste is what matters now" is being delivered by someone apparently, in a specifically SV sort of way, with a deficit of good taste.
Of course, it's John VP of Product. Did he tell you about that triathlon he did last weekend? Don't worry, if he hasn't already, he will.
replyAgree but arcteryx is from vancouver
replyGah, you're right of course. I was thinking of Fjällräven in particular (not that that's the only one) and got it mixed up.
replyThe original article was written by an LLM.
replyThe joke is that "taste" usually implies you have some strong personal sense of self and style, but if you walked into tech offices in the bay area everyone looks like that and acts/talks the same.
replySo its ironic that these same people are talking about "taste" when they ostensibly have very little.
That seems a bit judgy though, no? As if you can tell about a person's internal sense of taste by their business-casual clothing choices?
replyI mean, some of those people undoubtedly like Rush ... make of that what you will.
The joke is that all of the engineers that came before AI were also just following established patterns, right down to everyone wearing the same outfit to work despite our tech workplaces usually being very business casual. Implication that taste was not something these engineers had either.
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