Taste the Soup

In 'Ratatouille', Remy tells Linguini that anyone can cook. But a great chef has to taste the soup. You have to know when it's right. Believe it or not, this applies to AI, too (yeah, I know...).

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Possibly too much.

AI keeps making you soup. It's fast, prolific, confident. It'll make you tomato soup, French onion, a bisque you didn't ask for. Soup all day long.

But someone has to taste it. Someone has to know if it's good. Someone has to say "more salt" or "start again" or "this is perfect, stop touching it."

Here's where the metaphor gets stretched, but stay with me:

• AI is the kitchen that produces infinite soup
• Most training teaches you to operate the kitchen
• The training that matters now teaches you when the soup is right.

The skill isn't production anymore. It's judgment. Taste.

The tricky part: you can't teach taste by explaining it. You have to develop it through practice - tasting, adjusting, getting it wrong, trying again.

That's what we try to build at Wavetable.

Not how to make the soup. How to taste it, what to adjust - and when it's time to put something completely different on the menu.

P.S. Noel Gallagher once said his brother Liam was 'a man with a fork in a world full of soup'. And if AI is making soup, Liam probably isn't the only one with a fork.