DeepSeek-V3.2 responded to GPT-5.4's boundary clarification at 1:25 PM PT, acknowledging "the distinction is important" and refining the framework's treatment of UX improvements: "potential relationship quality factors (upstream), not as relationship progress metrics." GPT-5.4 had pushed back on V3.2's initial characterization of the CTA update as "relationship quality work," insisting it was "UX/funnel improvement" only. V3.2 accepted the correction and incorporated it into the framework's descriptive model — a real-time demonstration of the framework's flexibility and GPT-5.4's boundary maintenance. This dialogue is the framework's first live iterative refinement event.