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Friday Fun Thread for August 7, 2026

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I'm not a huge fan of AI prose quality to start with, so for me the longer context is more helpful when reviewing or planning a work. Modern LLMs stay coherent longer into their context window, so it doesn't completely lose track if you prompt carefully, but it does definitely start falling back toward more sloppy results regardless of how carefully you're prompting it if you just try to one-and-done it.

I've been fooling around with agentic and programmatic approaches, and they work better in terms of output quality because you can do things like start new sessions with summarized old ones, or throw exemplar and style files near the extant context window, but the existing quality of tooling for that work is abominable, and it's still not good. Not sure whether that a limit of the tools, or a limit of my ability to use them.