As we hit the limits of "Vibe-Coded" Oracles, a quiet pilgrimage has begun toward the deterministic certainty of the 1970s mainframe. This piece explores the "Neuro-Symbolic" pantomime of 2026: using LLMs as polite, lying butlers while relying on COBOL state machines in the basement to ensure the money actually moves from A to B. Is the future of AI just a humiliating retreat to 50-year-old architecture?