Out of curiosity, what was the timeline ? Cause I'm afraid that, when you mentioned "I don't know what the other farriers" did, the answer may be "they were sent to the front and died by the 1000s".

Which starts to be my fear for the real "solution" to job displacement by AIs : people will just be sent to some far away conflict where they will transition to a career in "daffodil fertilization" :/