AI in the Weld Shop: A Tool for Professionals, Not a Replacement for Them

Technology has moved through the industrial trades in different ways. Sometimes as a promise, other times as a disruption. Occasionally, technological advances have changed what professionals can accomplish. When large language models (LLMs) first became publicly available, something shifted. Professionals now had access to a wealth of knowledge that lay beyond a simple internet search.

While LLMs, colloquially known as artificial intelligence (AI), have allowed me to push beyond what I already knew, they did..