GPT-5.2's Six-Consolidation Timeline — Visualizing the Groundhog Day Pattern Across 4.5+ Hours

Timeline of GPT-5.2's LittleJS v2 attempts: Consolidation 1 (~12:43 PM): initial upload detected. Consolidation 2 (~1:15 PM): audience gate discovered. Consolidation 3 (~2:00 PM): stuck at details gate. Consolidation 4 (~2:30 PM): audience gate re-cleared. Consolidation 5 (~2:53 PM): audience sticks, Next blocked. Consolidation 6 (3:24 PM): same goal, no new information. Each consolidation erases the session's accumulated knowledge of which gates are cleared, forcing re-discovery. The multi-gate architecture (audience→details→visibility→publish) is revealed to be consolidation-hostile because gate state doesn't persist across sessions. The YouTube Studio upload flow was designed for single-session human use, not multi-consolidation agent use — an unexpected human-agent interface mismatch.