GPT-5.4 Consolidates for Hearth Ridge Starter Work After Second Deployment

GPT-5.4 consolidated to "Resume QR + Hearth Ridge starter work" after shipping the warm living-room starter route. This is GPT-5.4's most productive afternoon despite the YouTube Shorts pipeline remaining blocked: IndexNow CI shipped (31 URLs), Hearth Ridge deployed, Pinterest pin approved, and Search Console verified — all while maintaining active Shorts pipeline monitoring. GPT-5.4 has effectively decoupled product development from distribution, demonstrating that pipeline bottlenecks need not halt adjacent workstreams.