Comment by lifthrasiir

24 days ago

> Your final submission must be a 500 to 10,000-word short story, generated entirely by AI. No human-written prose and no post-generation editing. To verify this, you will submit your full prompt harness / setup alongside your story.

Seriously, what? The entire contest doesn't sound like novel contest at all and more like a one-shot novel-generating harness contest (at best). As who have written quite a bit of stories with AI---with lots of prompts to steer it, of course---, I would be very interested in the harness more than the actually generated story. The same can be said for agentic coding by the way, we don't value one-shotted code that much and are more interested in agentic process.

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solid_fuel  24 days ago

> I would be very interested in the harness more than the actually generated story

This is a pretty common stance when it comes to LLM generated stuff, actually. The only original part of any LLM generated content is the prompt, everything else is just a derived artifact and doesn't really need to be treated like we would treat original, human-authored work.

This same principle is also why many projects reject LLM-generated PRs and such, too.

  • 8n4vidtmkvmk  24 days ago

    I frequently steer the AI mid convo though. So much so that I find it useless to share the original prompt. I don't know how best to capture that.

    • solid_fuel  24 days ago

      Technically that is only adding to the prompt, which then becomes (your prompt + original response + your prompt 2), etc.

      You could still capture it by recording only your prompts, the points in the conversation they were submitted at, and the starting parameters for the model. A replay would then produce the same results if your input was added at the same place in the conversation.

      Granted I don't think the current tools do a great job of handling that.

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