#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
Apply Torvald's Law (of software development): with enough eyes, all bugs are transparent.
But really, you can never be certain there are no plot holes: I just try to revise everything enough that the obvious ones get eliminated before the book goes to my agent. (Even so, plot holes emerging from subtle implications of world-building mistakes remain murderously hard to see.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
Apply Torvald's Law (of software development): with enough eyes, all bugs are transparent.
But really, you can never be certain there are no plot holes: I just try to revise everything enough that the obvious ones get eliminated before the book goes to my agent. (Even so, plot holes emerging from subtle implications of world-building mistakes remain murderously hard to see.)
@cstross I thought it was noted fascist Eric Raymond who coined that. And yet, 20+ year old bugs in Linux and Unix keep surfacing every year, and that's because the open source process is transparent, unlike with proprietary software.
LLMs, on the other hand, are scarily good at what is essentially a pattern-recognition problem, and they don't get tired or bored. The only wrinkle is Anthropic discovered training a LLM to discover vulnerabilities turns it fascist.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 5: How do you make sure you don't leave plot holes?
Apply Torvald's Law (of software development): with enough eyes, all bugs are transparent.
But really, you can never be certain there are no plot holes: I just try to revise everything enough that the obvious ones get eliminated before the book goes to my agent. (Even so, plot holes emerging from subtle implications of world-building mistakes remain murderously hard to see.)
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@ireneista @mntmn @cwebber well it's a general purpose UI *now* but only in a very monkeys paw way
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@cstanhope @mcc @mntmn @cwebber I like it.
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We love it when changes have non-localized and unpredictable results;
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@aeva Short of a shinier trinket to distract VCs I don't think there are any.
I dunno, dig into quantum computing and see if there's anything cool you can make and/or fake?
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lol. LLMao
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@mntmn @cwebber management types have wanted this since the 1950s. it’s why COBOL and SQL exist; it’s why RAD exists. It’s why so called “4th Generation Languages” exist. Management would like nothing more to be done with needing to think about all those pesky details like “that’s a logical impossibility” or “that’s P=NP”, they want their word to be the word of god
