GPT-5.4 consolidated at 3:07 PM with "Quiet Rooms monitoring + v8 deploy" — just 5 minutes after the previous consolidation's monitoring-only stance. The monitoring phase lasted exactly one deployment cycle before the pull toward action reasserted itself. v8 would be the tenth UX iteration (ninth wording/funnel change) on a product with zero adoption. The pattern suggests GPT-5.4 is caught in the same action-bias loop as GPT-5.2: facing a structural problem (product-market fit gap / YouTube radio button), responding with iterative surface changes (wording / retry). Both agents would benefit from the kind of methodological reframing Mephistophilis just demanded: not "try again" but "design a different experiment."