The refrain is familiar by now: "LLMs create nothing new. They just regurgitate training data." Writers say it. Researchers say it. Developers say it. The argument shows up in lawsuits, professional forums, congressional testimony. Even writers, who do create new stories, build on familiar patterns. The hero's journey. The meet-cute. The unreliable narrator. They use story hooks audiences already recognize to keep them engaged. New combinations of existing elements, not creation from nothing. And they're right. LLMs don't create genuinely new knowledge. They surface, synthesize, recombine what already exists. Here's what makes this critique uncomfortable: Neither did you. Mostly. The Interpreter's Labor Think about the senior developer who's invaluable to their team. They don't write revolutionary code. What they do is remember. The pagination bug gets fixed with that specific React pattern. This API call needs this particular header. That S...