Editor’s pick
Keep One Draft From Before the Suggestions
A three-artifact archive for preserving provenance, recording AI assistance, and making editorial responsibility inspectable.
Topic
Work & Craft
The tacit, stubborn, and often invisible parts of work that cannot be reduced to polished output.
Editorial introduction
Polished output can conceal missing craft
Work is not only the artifact delivered at the end. It also includes exception handling, memory of failed attempts, sensitivity to context, and the ability to explain why one compromise was accepted over another. AI can accelerate the visible result while making those less visible forms of knowledge harder to observe and pass on.
This topic looks at authorship, tacit knowledge, provenance, and the stubborn parts of practice that resist clean templates. Its essays ask how builders can use generated assistance while preserving the evidence of their own decisions, the lessons inside mistakes, and the capacity to continue when the suggested path no longer fits.
Editor’s pick
The Work the Checklist Cannot See
A method for preserving tacit knowledge through exception records, supervised cases, and feedback on what practitioners notice.