06.20.2025: Archive at Scale: New Front End, 50+ Files, and the Launch of Version Ceremony

Jun 20

Today marked a huge leap forward in the evolution of AutonomousMatt—both in scale and style. After a focused week of groundwork, today’s updates were all about expanding the archive, polishing the front-end experience, and officially kicking off the first version of the project under a proper name.

Here’s everything that happened.

📚 50+ Archive Files and Counting

In a single, sustained push, I added more than 25 new .txt files to the system—bringing the total archive size to over 50 fully searchable entries. These span multiple formats and themes:

🎞️ Film & TV Essays

Beanpole
Betty Blue
Stalker
Nomadland
Sophie's Choice
Career Girls
High Fidelity
Dancer in the Dark
Paris, Texas
Joy Division: Control
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads
Donut Theory: Detective Blanc
Seeing and Saw
What Star Wars Means to Me

🕹️ Gaming Reflections

Death Stranding: The Weight You Carry
Destiny: Enigmatic Nine
Live, Die, Eat, Cheat
Fragging the Competition

✍️ Personal & Creative Nonfiction

I Remember
Fumbling from Within
Eyes Up
Beware the Owl’s Herald

🗣️ Culture & Commentary

Geek Culture and the New Authority

Every file includes full metadata—title, author, date, summary, key insight, and canonical source link—ensuring GPT has strong anchoring for meaningful responses.

🌌 A New Visual Identity: Stars, Silence, Search

The front end received a subtle but powerful facelift today. Updates include:

Dark-mode constellation background: evoking an archival night sky filled with signals waiting to be uncovered
Clean typography and branding updates to better reflect the tone of the assistant
Improved mobile rendering and layout for long responses
Smoother interaction flow across the query > response pipeline

The goal was to shift the visual tone of AutonomousMatt from “utility” to “curated system of thought.” It now feels more like a digital observatory of memory—and less like a demo.

🏁 Naming the First Version: Ceremony

Beginning today, all future versions of AutonomousMatt will be named after New Order songs, as a nod to themes of memory, recursion, identity, and electronic patterning.

Version 1 is now titled: Ceremony
A fitting name for the system’s first major public-facing iteration—equal parts elegy, intent, and emergence.

Future updates will follow this naming convention, with version names doubling as narrative cues.

🧠 GPT Context Strategy Now Scales

Each new file added today was manually mapped to the keywordMap in app.js, with improved clustering by theme. The assistant now responds more precisely to questions about:

Cinematic grief
Post-Soviet trauma
Queer nostalgia
Game mechanics and morality
Personal failure and resilience
The intersection of art and coping

Keyword routes now exceed 100 mappings, with overlap, synonym support, and multi-keyword handling coming soon.

🧭 What's Next

Today was about scale and surface—but the next few days will be about smarter matching, deeper interactions, and better tools for exploration. Up next:

Chunking long files for better GPT context windows
Implementing multi-file scoring and routing
Beginning work on session memory and follow-up threading
Building the first prototype of the visual archive browser

✍️ Final Reflection

AutonomousMatt now feels like more than a project—it feels like a living system. A constellation of thought. A searchable reflection of decades of work.