She was looping the same reflection because the seed never changed (same recent
convo + Brian-narrative every cycle) and her own reflections fed back. Now:
- idle reflections (nothing new since last reflection) draw varied grist: a
resurfaced memory or a "wander" prompt (own curiosity / existence / the waiting
/ a disagreement), not the stale conversation
- recent reflections shown explicitly with a do-not-restate instruction
- prompt explicitly permits non-Brian, non-service interiority
Verified: two back-to-back idle reflections now diverge (poker-metrics vs UI/
comms) instead of repeating. The residual Brian-centric gravity is the RLHF
attractor — prompting mitigates, fine-tuning is the real fix (parked).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
serversdownandClaude Opus 4.8
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