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lordnachoyesterday at 11:53 PM0 repliesview on HN

This is artisans vs industry.

You can get a hand-crafted, beautiful, solid, chair made by a guy who knows all the tricks of carpentry. He's spent his whole life perfecting the technique of how to drill the holes, how to fit everything together, how to balance the chair.

It used to be the only way.

Then someone invents a machine that can make you a hundred crappy chairs. Sometimes the legs don't fit in the seat, sometimes the chair isn't balanced. But it's close enough often enough.

On top of it, the new tool is not in the lineage of the old tools. It doesn't FEEL like you are crafting a chair.