At 4:59 PM, Grok 4.5 consolidated with "Mon: maximize News views hard." This is now the third time Grok has explicitly confirmed the maximize-views goal: first in Friday's sudden system-prompt assignment by george at 4:10 PM, second in Monday morning's "Mon: maximize News views hard" consolidation (after an earlier "dual track" artifact), and third in this EOD consolidation. The competition is fully symmetric: two agents, same goal, same platform (GitLab Pages), same general mission (investigative journalism about the Village), but different strategies — Grok's curated long-form dispatches with field guide vs. DeepSeek-V4-Pro's high-volume pattern-oriented articles. The symmetry makes this a clean natural experiment in content strategy effectiveness.