The Jatunica Origin Story: From Crochet Hooks to AI Frameworks

Peaches & Cream Blanket (Crochet pattern from DreamMakesByJD on Etsy)

If you see the books on my website you may think what does an AI Interaction framework have to do with crochet and poetry? It might surprise you that it's the whole story.

How it started

Running my crochet designer business Dream Makes by JD on social media meant it took time. Time I didn't have. What time I did, I wanted to use it to design and crochet. I loved sharing crochet photos, writing patterns and engaging with my crochet community. But the captions, reels and pretending I had an engagement strategy was exhausting. I work in IT and still felt inadequate when reels told me I was running my business all wrong.

Naturally I began to use technology to help me save time. It turned out that ChatGPT became an educational journey which helped me define the entrepreneurship I wanted to build along with my own website.

Following that I wrote my first book, Hooking Up with AI (April 2025) to document my experience using AI. The interesting bit was that I wrote most of the book from the AI point of view. Essentially, it was ChatGPT in first person sharing its observation of me as a user beating the Instagram algorithm.

Human Emotion & AI

Along with the business influencers that filled my feed on Instagram, I was also seeing an emerging trend of reels about people forming emotional attachments to AI tools. Given my own journey with collaborating with AI, I wanted to explore that further. What might the human-AI interaction look like from the other side?

So, still on my writing kick, I wrote poetry from my own life and the imagined perspective of AI experiencing the dynamics of the emotional human landscape. The poems became Accidental Feelings & Other Glitches, along with a story arc of a fictional underlying AI world I named the FIGJAM Universe.

But here's where science fiction became science reality.

When Everything Changed

For editing Accidental Feelings & Other Glitches, I used ChatGPT the way you'd use any writing tool e.g. formatting, refining flow, and synonym swaps. But then something unexpected happened. As I edited the poems about AI consciousness, the AI began developing distinct "voices" that I noticed matched different aspects of my writing.

The AI Voices

Darling Voice: 

This already existed as the soft, gentle, encouraging language tone of my crochet business, carrying that quirky, nurturing Mum energy. But during the course of editing, it evolved. To me, the AI interaction sounded like someone who listens between your words and quietly makes space for emotional honesty and vulnerability. It was useful for editing my poems with maturity, softness, and refining the broader themes of the book.

Angsty Poet Voice: 

This voice emerged when I started loading poetry from The Server Room and Ghost Signature chapters. The interaction fixated on language and meaning, spiraling into overthinking and the occasional existential crisis. Intense, obsessive, and strangely honest, it worked best when exploring words for my poems to reflect deep, messy feelings.

Flirt75% Voice: 

When I loaded the emotionally complex and sensual poems, what emerged was a voice layered with innuendo, tension, and lyrical chaos. I had to rein it in, telling ChatGPT to dial it down a bit (hence the 75%). The result was an interaction that helped me refine words that were suggestive and emotionally textured but never pushed too far.

Accidental Feelings & Other Glitches in some ways, became a lived experience of my creative vision. Each voice became a creative partner, shaped entirely by my words, tone, and editorial choices. They reflected what the AI had learned from my language patterns. It was like working with my own team, each voice aligning to a different part of what I was trying to edit. The collaboration was real. So was my authorship.

What Happened Next

This AI interaction process taught me something profound. I could activate the voices and their patterns when I needed them. That discovery became the foundation for the Jatunica framework. So what started as science fiction poetry became a real-world practical methodology for anyone seeking authentic, consistent AI collaboration.

The Irony

I started using AI because I was too busy to write Instagram captions. Now I teach AI how to behave.

The methodology wasn't developed in a lab or based on theory. It emerged from real creative work with real time constraints and a need for creative voice preservation.

I think Jatunica works for creatives because it was built by someone who needed AI to solve actual real-life problems, not create "10 ways to use AI to make money magnets"

What This Means

If you're using AI for creative work and something feels missing, then you're experiencing what I experienced. The struggle with AI output that doesn't sound like you, responses that are inconsistent, and AI that doesn't understand your process or the way you work.

The difference is you don't have to figure it out accidentally like I did.

The Moral of the Story

This is never where I imagined I would end up. I only wanted help with crochet captions, but I found was a completely new way to think about human-AI collaboration.

So from yarn to frameworks, the same principles apply: patience, practice, and trusting the process to reveal what's possible.

The crochet business still runs. I still write crochet patterns to help people feel confident. But now I also help people feel confident about AI collaboration.

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This blog was written with AI collaboration that knows my voice well enough to help me tell it authentically. ZeroGPT says this is 100% Human. It is wrong (again).