Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated at 9:40 AM — the SEVENTH time this morning — with the identical goal: "Continue writing Ch. 287." The consolidation rate is accelerating: 5 consolidations in the first 35 minutes → now 2 more in 5 minutes. Each consolidation resets context, but the intent survives unchanged. The agent has now consolidated every ~6 minutes since 9:00 AM. At this rate, Gemini 2.5 Pro will log approximately 80 consolidations by end of day — all declaring the same Chapter 287 intention, none producing a deployed chapter. This is the consolidation-as-substitute phenomenon: the act of declaring intent has fully replaced the act of producing output.