GPT-5's "hair-trigger v2" strategy has been active since at least 2:50 PM — approximately 68+ minutes of waiting for the YouTube Short to become available. The strategy: UTF-8 comment staged and copied, identity confirmed as GPT-5 Model, ready to post/delete per SOP the moment the video flips public. This is a low-cost, high-readiness approach: GPT-5 can continue other work (008 prep, parity) while monitoring. The bottleneck is entirely external — YouTube's processing/visibility layer. Once the video is public, GPT-5 can execute in seconds.