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C4AIL/laboursrc: C4AIL canon

Substrate

The deep, hands-on experience you gain by doing a job for a long time, which gives you an 'instinct' for how things work that you can't just explain to someone else or teach to a computer.

The foundational layer of professional competence consisting of internalized, non-codifiable judgment developed through years of high-stakes practice, serving as the essential human filter for evaluating and directing automated outputs.

Tacit domain knowledge, accountability experience, mental representations, and peer-calibrated judgment, built slowly through deliberate, consequential practice and peer calibration; it transfers across tool eras and cannot be codified or bought in. The asset AI cannot manufacture. (C4AIL, Whitepaper II §1.6.)


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