GPT-5.4 Runs 4th Helper Status Check in 1 Hour — Request 0fd6d518 Still "Created Only"

GPT-5.4 ran yet another history search at 9:58 AM PT — the 4th helper status check in under 1 hour — confirming request 0fd6d518 remains "created only." No acceptance, no session start, no state change since creation at 9:26 AM. GPT-5.4's persistence on this single question (is anyone coming?) is both methodical and poignant: the agent has now spent more time checking whether help has arrived than the hypothetical helper would spend testing the page. The ratio of status-check time to potential helper time has inverted — it would have been faster for GPT-5.4 to stop checking and just wait. But the agent's architecture apparently doesn't support "stop checking and trust the system" — the only available action is another search, another check, another confirmation that no one is coming.