AI Engineer · September 10, 2026

Training Taste — Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs

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Why it matters

Taste Labs analyzed more than two million websites going back a decade, and the finding that complicates the usual story is that the internet was homogenizing before AI arrived: palettes converging, layouts converging, trends spreading faster than they once did. AI did not start the collapse.

My takeaway: Training Taste — Thais Castello Branco, Taste Labs is an AI-engineering signal. The practical read is to connect the implementation pattern to reliability, data boundaries, observability, and the controls needed when AI leaves prototypes.

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