I think of variations of sentences I know

huh, options makes cheesing very easy. Anki you can always "lie to yourself" but then it's up to you to determine what "Good" and "Again" mean

if you are interested in testing this I can set up a host for you. It's still early phase but would be good to have an intermediate Chinese speaker test it.

Interesting. Maybe it's good that you are exposed to more stuff instead of reaching "local minima" (for ex. one of the first words I learned was park: 公园 and now I have 35 cards with that word)

However introducing random Mandarin mixed in can be daunting as it's almost impossible to deduce meaning

Migaku looks fantastic. I'm definitely trying it out after a month or two.

I saw it but I really like Anki's algorithm and also how customizable it is (for example the images are also generated)

Also I wanted something more tailored for me where words/sentenced are generated using my mature cards (Krashen's i -> i+1 principle)

LLMs are an amazing tool for language learning though. I think most Anki power users advocate against it but we are reaching a point where they make so few new mistakes when it comes to producing language

Reason being that many words aren't supporting words for learning other things and you simply need more exposure to those words in other settings

I think this works specially well with #chinese because Chinese is overall a language where you rely mostly on learning vocabulary for acquisition, grammar is simple

However one thing I've noticed is that using Cloze cards doesn't enforce my reading skills

HelloChinese better in general