I’ve just realized that LLMs have a problem with magic strings – a string like “#FF00FF,” which is the color magenta. Most experienced developers will refactor magic strings out of code because it’s a maintenance nightmare. This also seems to happen in LaTeX, too, which is code-adjacent. When LLMs put together a table, they are happy to put in paragraph-length text split line-by-line. Which is a maintenance nightmare because the paragraph is essentially magic strings that look like a paragraph. The maintainable way to do it is something like: \begin{tabular}{p{0.35\linewidth} | p{0.6\linewidth}}. Which I’ve never seen in machine-generated LaTeX.

Tasks

• 1:15 FA Dance
• Tweak story analysis prompt. See if I can make a hallucinatory Aesop fable

SBIRs

• 9:00 Standup
• More white paper and SoW, I’m guessing
• Set detect_color as a QTColor
• 11:30 H60 Followup
• 4:00 ADS tagup