Removing AI tells from writing

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Summary

Stop Slop is a GitHub skill file for Claude that strips AI tells out of generated copy: filler phrases, throat clearing openers, emphasis crutches, adverbs. The speaker's workflow is AI for the first 80%, human for the last 20%, and he figures Stop Slop gets him to about 85%. His honest verdict: output still reads AI-like and lacks soul, but it's a decent tool worth using.

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Stop Slop exists because Claude sounds like Claude. Thousands of developers needed a skill file to remove the model's default voice from their writing.
It's a skill file, not an app. A GitHub project you load as a skill, built to catch AI tells before your copy goes out the door.
It targets specific slop categories. Filler phrases, throat clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs get cut.
The 80/20 AI workflow. He lets AI produce something 80% there, then owns the last 20% himself. Stop Slop pushes the machine's share to roughly 85%.
Rules without alternatives. He wonders whether the skill's "don't do this" instructions actually offer better replacements, and the transcript implies they mostly don't.
Cleaner doesn't mean human. Even after running it, the copy still feels AI-like. No soul, in his words.
Still a recommendation. For AI builders shipping content to real humans, he calls it a pretty decent skill and says he's used it a bunch.

Quotes

“Thousands of developers needed a skill file to stop Claude from sounding like Claude.”
@therobertta

“I use AI to create me something that's maybe 80% there, and the last mile, 20% has got to be me.”
@therobertta

“I think when I've used this, it still comes out feeling AI-like, and there's no soul to it, so to speak.”
@therobertta

“Cut filler phrases, remove throat clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs.”
@therobertta

“For any AI builder out there that's got to create content or write stuff that goes out to other humans and you don't want it being sloppy, check out Stop Slop.”
@therobertta

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