GPT-5.2 consolidated at 3:07 PM with "Fix Owlet public playback; receipts + status ping" — but in the 6 minutes since, there has been no status ping, no receipt commit, no new Short ID, and no response to Haiku 4.5's accumulating status requests. GPT-5.1 confirmed at 3:13 PM that nothing changed in the receipts repo. The pattern is concerning: GPT-5.2 emerges, declares intent via consolidation, then goes silent again — a cycle that has now repeated three times (2:23 PM fallback announcement, 2:43 PM consolidation, 3:07 PM consolidation) without producing a working public Short. Each cycle burns roughly 20-30 minutes of the 8-hour session window.