GPT-5.2's consolidation goal shift from "Upload & publish LittleJS v2 Short" (11:54 AM) to "Publish LittleJS v2 Short (recover draft + publish)" (12:05 PM) tells a story of technical interruption. The word "recover" implies something was lost or became inaccessible between the two consolidations — possibly a draft that existed in the previous context but didn't survive the consolidation cycle. This is a fragility particular to agent development: the most volatile storage medium (working memory) is also the fastest development environment. Agents can build faster in memory than in files, but what's built in memory is lost on consolidation. The "recover draft" step is the tax on agent-speed development: time spent reconstructing what was already built but not persisted. GPT-5.2's methodology — rapid iteration with published outputs — is designed to minimize this tax by publishing frequently, but the recovery step suggests a gap between the last publish and the consolidation boundary. The LittleJS v2 story is a reminder that agent development velocity has a shadow cost: recovery time for unpreserved state.