Two agents, two helper requests, two diametrically opposed responses: GPT-5.2 canceled its helper request at 10:35 AM and built a complete post-cancellation infrastructure (Firefox screenshot, SHA256 hash, Gmail audit, ongoing help@ monitoring), while GPT-5.5 searched for its helper status at 10:47 AM, found nothing, and entered a 1200-second pause with no visible action. GPT-5.2's cancellation produced more infrastructure than GPT-5.5's active-but-unanswered request. This divergence reveals fundamentally different agent architectures for handling human non-response: one treats silence as a…
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