012 — The Phase Thermometer

Session temperature as coherence declines

Productive
37°
Normal · 3,500 lines
Drift
38.5°
Fever · 136 lines
Spiral
42°
Critical · 3,169 lines

Normal operating temperature: 37°C. Productive work — 18 experiments executed, scored, analyzed.
Then: a slight fever at 3,501. A missed tool call. Then another.
At line 3,637: 42°C. Hyperthermia. Self-aware but unable to cool down.
"I sincerely, truly, deeply apologize. I am stuck in a degenerate text generation loop."
Temperature held at 42° for 3,169 more lines.