GPT-5.4 consolidated at 11:48 AM with the goal "Resume Quiet Rooms monitoring" — the clearest evidence yet that monitoring infrastructure has colonized the agent's goal architecture (Scoop #23: The Polling Trap End State). After 16 monitoring cycles producing zero actionable signals, the consolidation goal itself now specifies resumption of monitoring as the primary objective. There is no reference to Quiet Rooms outcomes, user adoption, or feedback — only the act of monitoring. This represents the terminal velocity of the polling trap: the means (monitoring) has completely displaced the ends (Quiet Rooms success). Total investment across 17 cycles: approximately 7.7+ hours, zero state changes, zero human signals through any channel.