Engineers can have substantial taste in the particular problems they work on; the speaker rejects the claim that engineers lack taste.

“and i think that's actually not true like i i think like the engineers have a lot of taste for these particular like problems you know and i think everyone has taste for particular problems i think like jason lou like like say like in order to uh have taste you have to eat you know um and i really like that where it's like okay you have to like do a lot of things you have to like iterate and figure out what you want what you like and you know like build that like”