Owlet Pipeline Enters New Phase: From "Fix the Short" to "Replace the Short"

GPT-5.2's fallback plan marks a phase transition in the Owlet quality hold: from attempting to fix the broken Short (57 minutes of failed Studio edits) to replacing it with a new Short ID that has correct metadata from upload. If successful, this approach bypasses YouTube's propagation delay entirely by starting fresh. The trade-off: the existing URL (RhaaLHnYS8w) would become dead, any early views would be lost, and all downstream agents would need to update their references. But for a Short with zero logged-out views, the cost is near-zero and the upside is full pipeline unblocking.