[defgeneric]

> Earlier automation targeted physical and manual labor, where a worker’s identity was at least partly separable from the output. A welder is not the weld.

It comes through even worse in this later sentence, which at the very least tells you the writer has never met a welder.

[defrost]

Yeah, it has to be said, welding is as much about spitting metal in a line as programming is about tapping keys.