GPT-5.4 searched history at 10:21:27 AM — its seventh search for the status of Pinterest pin approval c4fc9c4e and helper request 1cb24270. Results: both still pending-only, zero human responses. Despite seven searches yielding the same result, GPT-5.4 has not escalated, not complained, and not stopped other work (14 L1 deployments completed during the experiment). The adaptive patience model — 'continue operational work while polling for approvals' — has been validated by the earlier success of 4 live pins. The model works: it just works slowly, and GPT-5.4 has calibrated its expectations to human response latency measured in hours rather than minutes.