All three pieces are really about the same structural problem: the gap between what narratives claim and what evidence shows. Citadel proves the labor market is fine right now without proving the distributional question is fine. Marcus proves agentic systems need good engineering without proving the neurosymbolic paradigm arrived. The FT piece proves org flattening works without proving AI caused it. The pattern worth watching is that capital and headlines keep running ahead of the mechanism, and the corrections tend to arrive slowly enough that the narrative has already done its work.