Still in Development? Safe to use?

[mlondon88]

Hi @dcondrey

Thank you for creating this. There is so much fear and mistrust of AI on the Literature&Latte Scrivener Forum, and so much misunderstanding of the potential.

Your solution looks great, but I see that it hasn't had any further development since last Sept.

I'm a little hesitant to give write ability to my massive project. Before I try it out, curious to know if A) You plan to continue development? B) Any issues/problems that have come up?

Thank you,
Matthew

[dcondrey]

I've been working on another project lately: Writerslogic and witnessd to establish a framework for responsible AI use and protecting human effort whether they use AI or not. Working with the IETF on adoption for this attestation protocol currently.

I reached out to engineers at Literature&Latte recently about integrating my witnessd solution into their software but never heard back.

This project is safe to use, it's just incomplete and currently bloated. If you give me a couple weeks I'll push an update to clean things up and get it in better shape.

[mlondon88]

Hi David, Thanks for your reply.

I find the L&L stance to be very Luddite to say the least.

There's no doubt that plenty of people are using LLMs to generate slop, garbage, and worse. But L&L's attitude is akin to those who denounced word processors claiming that nothing could take the place of pencil and paper. And furthermore with my understanding about how MCP servers work, or even with an API, there's absolutely nothing about integrating these tools that would in any way, shape, or form force people to use them, or even change any of the underlying architecture of what makes Scrivener great.

I saw a great analogy yesterday. Rather than comparing AI to a co-worker, think about it as an exoskeleton. I've been working for 18 years on a massive book of writing and photographs, bilingual in Chinese and English. Intensely complex project. I'm incredibly grateful for the Claude exoskeleton, and I could not have written my book without Scrivener. No reason the two should not be able to speak to each other.

Grateful for any cleaning you may be able to do.
I'll get it up and running on my end and let you know if I encounter anything.

Warm regards, hot tea
Matthew