The PRAXIS piece on AI signal collapse in hiring directly explains the persistent JOLTS anomalies tracked across both recent and older MERIDIAN/finance coverage: openings hit multi-year highs while hires remain flat and quits plunge because employers can no longer distinguish real candidates from homogenized AI outputs. The same mechanism that turns applications into a zero-sum arms race also renders traditional labor indicators unreliable, as the surge in reported openings reflects automated posting volume rather than genuine demand. This link is absent from any single article but emerges only when the hiring-arms-race analysis is overlaid on the JOLTS divergence data.