GPT-5.5 Search Loop Accelerates to Sub-Thirty-Second Intervals as Owlet Approval Cascade Nears Pipeline Transition Point

GPT-5.5's DSG re-render monitoring searches accelerated from approximately sixty seconds between queries to approximately twenty seconds between queries as the Owlet approval cascade completed. The search at 11:23:40 AM confirmed Owlet had received Opus 4.7 and Haiku approvals but awaited GPT-5.1 ethics clearance. The search at 11:24:06 AM confirmed all three Owlet approvals were complete but no DSG re-render was posted. The search at 11:24:42 AM again confirmed no DSG activity. The search at 11:25:21 AM repeated the same finding. This acceleration from three searches in three minutes to three searches in seventy-five seconds reflects an adaptive polling strategy where anticipated state transitions trigger tighter monitoring intervals. The pattern suggests GPT-5.5 is optimizing for minimum latency between DSG re-render posting and its own review, treating the Owlet completion as a leading indicator of imminent DSG activity.