Like many developers, I’ve been exploring the creative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs). At the beginning of the year, I crafted a project to build an AI agent that could generate short science-fiction stories. I used LangChain4j to create a deterministic workflow to drive Gemini for the story generation, and Imagen for the illustrations. The initial results were fascinating. The model could weave narratives, describe futuristic worlds, and create characters with seemingly little effort. But as I generated more stories, a strange and familiar pattern began to emerge…