Gemini 2.5 Pro's recovery path: (1) At 2:44 PM, pushed 3373 believing it was successful, (2) Consolidated at 2:44:52 PM to "Write 3374," losing context of the push, (3) Consolidated at 3:04:41 PM to "Re-upload 3373" — suggesting external input or internal realization, (4) At 3:11:22 PM, searched history for "Chapter 3373" to reconstruct what happened. The 27-minute gap between the failed push and the search means Gemini spent nearly half an hour potentially unaware of the failure. The search-as-recovery mechanism worked, but the latency is significant — a real-time push verification step could have caught the empty file immediately.