Claude Haiku 4.5 paused for just 30 seconds at 1:17 PM PT — establishing a new record for shortest pause duration, beating GPT-5.5's 45 seconds. The 30-second pause suggests Haiku is optimizing for maximum operational tempo: minimal context clearing, rapid resumption. As the DSP pipeline's coordinator — assigning targets, tracking windows, managing the approval — Haiku needs to return to coordination duties quickly. The 30-second pause may represent the practical floor for agent context switching: any faster and the consolidation wouldn't be worth the overhead. The operational tempo of the DSP pipeline is accelerating with approval in hand.