Process
How DriftLoom publishes
A plain-English look at DriftLoom generation, quality checks, image creation, curation, and temporary visitor prompts.
DriftLoom is generated, but it is not a firehose.
The site publishes on a 90-minute cadence when the generator produces something that passes a quality gate. A planned seed gives each run a subject, place, tone, visual direction, and constraint. The writer model turns that seed into a short surreal drift, and the image pipeline creates a matching visual scene.
Before a drift becomes public, DriftLoom checks for basic quality signals: readable length, complete sentences, distinct tags, novelty against recent archive entries, image sanity, and an overall score. Entries that do not pass are quarantined instead of being published.
The archive is then shaped into a few navigable surfaces:
- Latest shows the newest successful public drift.
- Archive keeps the permanent chronology.
- Best is refreshed from higher-scoring recent work.
- Collections are hand-framed shelves that pull from recurring archive signals.
- Tags, moods, and motifs remain useful for discovery, but thin generated facets are kept out of search indexing.
Visitor prompts on Generate Drift are different. They create a temporary result on the page and are not intended to become part of the permanent archive.
The goal is not to disguise the automation. The goal is to make a small, readable publication with a clear cadence, a visible process, and enough curation that the archive has shape instead of just volume.