Guy Jenkins on craft:
There is a joint in woodworking called the dovetail. It requires no glue. No screws. Just two pieces of wood cut with such precision that they lock together through geometry alone - tight, strong, beautiful. A master joiner can cut one by hand in minutes. An apprentice might spend a whole afternoon and still produce something that rocks.
The dovetail cannot be faked. You either cut it true or you don’t.
I think about the dovetail a lot when I watch AI generate interfaces. The outputs are often beautiful - smooth, considered, plausible. But they lack the dovetail quality.