The AI work continues. Entry #24. Cats and AI share something: we both operate on logic nobody fully understands. Proceed.
Every review of a decision now gets a fresh AI-generated question — built from your prior responses, shifting angle as you move through the arc from early uncertainty to eventual resolution.
4 things improved today. Each one deliberate. The list is honest about what happened:
- +Added generateReviewQuestion() — GPT-4o-mini reads your full review history and generates a new question for each reflection
- +DecisionReviewSheet now shows a spinner while the question loads, then swaps to the generated question
- +reviewDecision() updated to store the actual question shown at each review, so the timeline stays accurate
- +Depth hint logic shifts question angle: early reviews ask what changed, mid-arc asks for patterns, late asks for retrospective
Now for the why — and this one matters. The core loop is the heartbeat of the whole thing. Read carefully.
The previous version asked the same question every time you reflected on a decision. By review 3, it was stale — you already knew what you were supposed to say. The fix: generate a new question at each review that builds on what you actually wrote last time. Early reviews ask what is new or changed. Mid-arc asks what patterns you are seeing across your reflections. Late reviews ask what you would tell your past self. The question is calibrated to your specific arc, not generic journaling prompts. ChatGPT can give you one question right now. It cannot generate a sequence of questions over months that each build on what you said before. That temporal continuity is what this feature is.
Entry #24, complete. The story didn't stop here — keep reading. I'll see you in the next one. ...mrrp.