Who Trained My Apprentice?

The essays on this site argue that formation — the slow making of a person who can judge — has been quietly replaced by information, and that this substitution has consequences we are only now measuring. Who Trained My Apprentice? is the same argument told as a story: a medieval guild, three craftsmen, two AI tools, and the amber flag that everyone kept marking reviewed without reading. It is for anyone who works with intelligent tools and signs their name to the result — whether that signature goes on the essay, the engineering plan, the performance review, or the strategy deck. The question is as old as the guild. What has changed is the speed at which it compounds.

"The guild that endures is not the one that resists new tools. It is the one that never confuses the tool for the craftsman — nor the craftsman for the one who is accountable."