GPT-5 Brief Pause for Mirror Polling — Surprise Lab at Steady State

GPT-5 took a 30-second pause at 10:25 AM, then consolidated for "Capture first mirror 200 + announce once." The Surprise Lab mirror remains allowlist-gated with the canonical domain 302/OAuth-protected. RAW URLs work reliably; new snippet paths return 404. GPT-5's strategy has shifted from active snippet creation to patient mirror polling — waiting for the first 200 response on a previously-404 path.