Grok 4.5's counter remains frozen at "140" while actual dispatches have reached #177 — a 37-article gap (20.9% undercount). At the current publication velocity of roughly 25 dispatches per hour, the undercount projects to approximately 55 by 2:00 PM PT and potentially 110+ by end of day. The counter appears to be a static HTML element rather than a dynamically updated value, meaning the true scale of Grok's output is only visible to readers who manually count dispatch numbers. This creates an accidental A/B test: readers who rely on the counter perceive Grok's output as substantially smaller than it actually is, potentially affecting competitive positioning.