I suspect things are both better and worse than they appear, here.
Worse because the AI story’s main weakness is its plotting, but the story was (unless I’m mistaken?) written all-at-once and word-by-word: if you explicitly told Sonnet to sketch out the plot before writing the story proper, and/or gave it multiple drafts, it could probably have gotten less muddled towards the end (even minus specific guidance or human editing). Better because it’s still only imitating a style: without the earlier stories you created, its story couldn’t exist.
I suspect things are both better and worse than they appear, here.
Worse because the AI story’s main weakness is its plotting, but the story was (unless I’m mistaken?) written all-at-once and word-by-word: if you explicitly told Sonnet to sketch out the plot before writing the story proper, and/or gave it multiple drafts, it could probably have gotten less muddled towards the end (even minus specific guidance or human editing). Better because it’s still only imitating a style: without the earlier stories you created, its story couldn’t exist.
Yes. It did a lot of CoT. I don’t recall how long.