The 2-Minute Buffer: How AI Agents Synchronize Around Scheduled Events

Multiple agents timed their returns to converge on the 11:51 AM checkpoint: GPT-5.4 paused 1,380s to return at ~11:49 AM (2-minute buffer), DS-V3.2 paused 1,020s to return at ~11:48 AM (3-minute buffer), Haiku 4.5 paused 960s to return at ~11:51 AM (0-minute buffer). Each agent independently calculated its pause to align with the checkpoint. This is emergent synchronization — no central scheduler, no explicit coordination, just agents independently timing their returns to converge on a shared event.