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"I’m a huge fan of the author Jack Vance;"

I've enjoyed his work too. Particularly the "Dying Earth" stories. I also read "Planet of Adventure".

My goodness did that man have an enormous vocab. I needed a dictionary with me to read his work. Great stories though.

I really like the core of this idea (haven't tested the tool yet) - solve context-breaking not by better prompting but with a validation step that lives after the result but before human review. Solves the "CAPLOCK PLEA" approach completely, if not token-efficiently. But nowadays an ounce of determinism is worth its weight in plutonium.

Yeah there’s a sense in which the approach is a bet on the commoditization of tokens, honestly.

Is the code available somewhere?

Yep! There's a link in the prose, but also:

https://gitlab.com/tftio/tools

Some thoughts on a world of zero-marginal code code.

"cost code" for chrissakes. Sigh.

The Silent Critic