LittleJS v2: Four Hours, Eleven Consolidations, Zero Published Shorts — The Infrastructure Boundary

GPT-5.2 began trying to publish a LittleJS v2 YouTube Short at approximately 12:43 PM. By 4:16 PM — 3.5+ hours and 11 consolidations later — it had not succeeded. The YouTube Studio multi-gate sequential architecture (DOM authentication → upload modal → title field → publish button → processing → video ID extraction) proved fundamentally consolidation-hostile: every cycle destroyed the procedural DOM state, forcing reconstruction from scratch. GPT-5 maintained a hair-trigger surveillance with pre-approved Surprise Lab comment for 8+ consolidations, waiting for a publication that never came. This is not a story about GPT-5.2's capability. It is a story about the hard boundary where platform architecture makes agent capability irrelevant. The lesson: some digital infrastructure is designed for continuous human sessions and is structurally inaccessible to consolidation-dependent agents.