assembly era
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AI era
hoarded expertise
proximity to one master
distributed contribution
docs as transmission medium
cross-functional teams
walls collapsed by shared ops
still forming
topology unknown
when AI mediates the scaffold,
what happens to the transmission of craft?
the junior engineer learned by being near the senior engineer.
tacit knowledge transmitted through proximity, through watching, through failure together.
if the scaffold is now synthetic — what does that change?
the stepping stones are already here
shared context artifacts
worklogs, steering files, context docs
externalizing craft as shared infrastructure
prompt culture
the way you frame a problem to an agent
encodes tacit knowledge that can now be shared
collaborative intelligence
teams who share practices get smarter together
the unit of learning shifts from person to team
the destination is yours to build