I think it’s wrong to say AI doesn’t have taste; it’s more accurate to say it doesn’t match your own taste and it can be hard to get it to match because it’s intangible.
This is more evident with Claude Design than Claude Code, where it does incredibly dull and uninspiring designs and then writes little puff pieces about how “bold” and “edgy” they are. For some situations that is the correct design, but I found it difficult to get better results with additional prompting.
If you prompt thoroughly (listing your priorities, values, and your own taste), then you’ll get better recommendations that don’t just regress to the mean.