AI is transforming both digital and physical work, but not in the same way. By comparing software engineering with aircraft maintenance, this article examines where human judgment, accountability, and consequence still matter—and how CCH uses material practice to cultivate those capacities in the age of AI.

Created before the formal development of the CCH Protocol, the Not in Trend series explored attention, cultural fragmentation, material layering, and independent visual judgment. These works now reveal an early foundation of CCH ART NOW: the study of how human beings select, organize, resist, and construct meaning under complexity.