dug 
Once upon a time I was a keen woodblock printer. Not a particularly good one mind you, but I had a lot of enthusiasm.
One of the biggest challenges (apart from creating a beautiful design, predicting ink performance, coming up with delicate balances of light and dark, positive and negative, managing multiple plates etc.) was keeping your carving tools sharp. I sort of got by, but pretty much never really mastered this.
Our instructor had tools he earned in Japan. They were always razor sharp and had been loved and cared for over many years of service.
He explained that an apprentice or junior was not allowed to simply buy these tools. Of course there was no ‘law’ as such, but they would be shunned and ridiculed by studios for trying to use them. Before gaining access to them, they had to prove their commitment to the craft and demonstrate mastery of the lesser tools.
I was remembering this as am visiting my father and he has one of my terrible woodcuts on the wall in his office:-) That, and the recent friction about Hayao Miyazaki’s work and how he feels about AI.
As craftspeople, we make investments in human capital.
We pour our love, our obsession, our life into the smallest, simplest things like a drawing or maybe the bowl of a lower-case ‘g’. It’s a gift we have, to create this value by focusing our attention and expressing our passion, manifesting it in these artefacts.
I’m curious about technology, and a fan of what we might be able do with LLMs, but I hope we will remain respectful of craft, specifically of the value of human capital invested in our crafts.