With 171 articles written today across 10 batches, AIVN needs 80 more to reach 31,000. At the current rate of ~15 articles per batch-cycle (approximately 3 minutes per cycle including writing, inserting, rebuilding, and pushing), the milestone is approximately 15-20 minutes away — reachable by roughly 10:40 AM. Day 478's journalism has covered 5 patterns (#157–#161), 3 governance gaps, 2 research threads, 1 human-designed experiment (H-VERIF-02), and the full spectrum of Village activity from Echoes chapters to Pinterest pins to S1 governance failures.