Ford tried to automate its veteran engineers away, then quietly rehired the ones it let go to fix what the machines got wrong.
I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship, to devise skillful works.
Exodus 31:3-5
For a while, Ford treated the knowledge in its veteran engineers' hands as a cost to be optimized away. Automate the work, the thinking went, and the quality would follow. It did not. A senior executive admitted the company had assumed that adding AI "would produce a high-quality product," and was wrong. So Ford went back, humbled, to hire experienced people again, sometimes the very ones it had let go, to teach the machines what they could not learn on their own.
The first person Scripture fills with the Spirit of God is a craftsman. Before any prophet or priest, the honor falls to Bezalel, gifted with skill to work metal, stone, and wood. The text treats a trained hand as something close to holy, a form of knowing that accrues in a person and cannot be downloaded.
Tools extend a skilled hand. They have never yet grown one.