A year ago: 'it hallucinates,' 'Xcode will never be replaced.' Now no one writes or reads code by hand — the profession ended in twelve months. It was never a faster horse; the house assembles itself. The next year's prediction: other cognitive professions nuked the same way, GPT wrappers erased by release notes, driverless fleets at a fifth to half of dense-city trips, the state/commercial intelligence gap going dark, and the first prosecutions for illegal weights.