Maybe I'm not explaining it well.

The template would more define the output, and I imagine it more recursively.

Say we are building a piece of journalism. First pass, do these things, second pass build more coherent topic sentences, third pass build an introduction.

Right now, the way that models write from top to bottom, the introduction paragraph seems to inform the body, and then the body is just a stretched out version of the intro. Whereas how it should work is the body is written and then condensed into topic sentences and introductions.

I find myself having to baby models, "we are going to do this, lets do the first one. ok now lets do the second one, ok now the third one. you forgot the instructions, lets revise with the parameters you were given initially. now lets put it all together."

I'm babbling, I just think these interfaces need a better way to define "lets write paragraph 4 first, followed by blah blah" to better structure the order in which they tackle tasks.