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Articles tagged Writing

  • 8 min read

    The Blind-Reader Test for AI-Assisted Fiction

    You cannot judge prose you watched being generated. Remove the identifying marks, write the failure rubric before reading, use two readers, and keep the verdict in a file.

    • AI
    • Writing
  • 7 min read

    Why AI novels fall apart at chapter nine

    Long-form AI fiction does not fail because of a bad prompt. It fails when the context is compacted and the story's state disappears. Files, gates and a small script fix it.

    • AI
    • Writing