Comment by Turskarama
18 hours ago
I don't think the power tools analogy really works. Using power tools doesn't make you less skilled at carpentry, it just makes you less skilled at using hand tools specifically. If you then need to use hand tools later, you need to learn the hand tool skills but the carpentry skills are still there, and that's the more technical skill that takes longer to learn. In this sense the power tool analogy is more like using an IDE vs just a text editor.
Using AI to code is more like using a laser cutter for carpentry. You get the large pieces out which you then glue together, but if you needed to make those same pieces using either power tools OR hand tools you'd have a much harder time learning how to do it.
So functionally, this take is mostly incorrect.
You usually use entirely different techniques for hand vs power tool.
The way you'd do the work, the methods of joinery you'd choose, the style and choice of cuts, even the preferred size of boards - all completely different.
Learning hand tools is an entirely separate skill set. Down to the planning stage.
It's not merely doing power tools more slowly. And trying to use power tools like they're merely "faster" hand tools also doesn't work. You waste a ton of time because it's just a different operation.