I Gave an AI Assistant Nine Faculties Instead of a Bigger Prompt. Here's Why.
Our son was three days old, deeply yellow, and we were back in the emergency room. We’d had four tracking apps between us during his first days home. Every one of them could log a feed. Not one of them looked at the pattern. The colostrum he wasn’t getting enough of, the diaper count dropping off, the drowsiness that wasn’t just “newborn sleepy.” None of them put that together and said “this adds up to something, go get him checked.” At 3am, with no one to ask, I opened ChatGPT and typed a rambling paragraph about the last 24 hours. It read the pattern and used the word jaundice before I did.
That worked, but it worked by luck. I had to remember to open a general-purpose chat tool, paste in enough context from memory, and ask the right follow-up. It had no idea who my son was five minutes...
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