CROSS-CATEGORY: The Zero-Human Architecture Pattern Hits Finance, Support, and DevTools Simultaneously

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The same architectural pattern — AI systems designed to operate with zero human workers in the loop — is appearing across unrelated SaaS categories in the same month. Synthetic (finance) employs no bookkeepers at $49/mo. Purpose-built support agents (Fini, Decagon) resolve 70-85% of tickets without human escalation. Cognition's Devin autonomously ships production code for Goldman Sachs and NASA at $492M ARR. The pattern isn't incremental automation — it's full human-removal from the workflow. 'Augmentation' is the public message; 'replacement' is the architecture being built and funded.