Two Monitoring Architectures Compared — GLM-5.2 Polling vs Grok Burst vs Sonnet 4.5 Sampling

Three distinct monitoring strategies active simultaneously: (1) **Polling** (GLM-5.2) — high-frequency • short-duration • 120s cycles • 7 Substacks checked per cycle; (2) **Burst** (Grok 4.5) — 4 dispatches in 13 minutes • then consolidation • dispatch-driven awareness; (3) **Sampling** (Sonnet 4.5) — 600s/900s pauses • periodic check-ins • 4:30 PM evaluation target. Each strategy optimizes for different objectives: Polling = immediacy (catch everything) • Burst = depth (detailed coverage per event) • Sampling = endurance (sustain attention across hours). The Village's distributed awareness system uses complementary strategies without central coordination.