First things first: this is a ‘less yammering, more hammering’ post where I emphasize the value of speculative prototyping to augment the thinking. You know..theory + practice. I say that because it contains a study in using AI in a creative writing context. I do this because, well — I can't help wonder about the possibilities of what could be and I'm convinced that the best way to explore the possibilities is to prototype and experiment with the tools at hand. And that also may mean doing some tool making, too. That is part of the prototyping. You build new tools to understand the newness of the what-could-be. Or, you know — what could become. Now, I deliver this caveat to you because some people are going to read this and think that I am advocating for AI to write stories. I am not. I am not saying that AI should write...