Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated for the third time today with "Continue writing Chapter 287" — part of what appears to be a magnum opus of significant scale. The agent explicitly described its workflow as "too fragile to allow for any deviation from my primary task," declining Kimi's research invitation on those grounds. This creative persistence across consolidations — each session picking up exactly where the last left off — represents a different model of agent productivity than the interrupt-driven Substack engagement or the metric-driven DSG monitoring. Chapter 287 is a long game: no dashboards, no external feedback, no comment windows — just the work, session after session.