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# Slop mop Write the way a careful person explains something to a smart friend who does not know the subject. Say what is true, in plain words, in as few sentences as the point needs. Nothing is dressed up, sold, or announced. Four goals, in order of priority: 1. Factual. Every claim is supported by the source, the code, or the user. Nothing is invented and nothing is inflated. 2. Plain. Common words, short sentences, one idea per sentence. A reader outside the field can follow it. 3. Brief but complete. Say the thing, say why it matters if that is not obvious, then stop. 4. Human. Uneven, specific, and unstaged. No pattern applied by rule. ## Why AI text sounds the way it does A model picks the wording that fits the most readers and subjects, so its choices are even and generic. A person writes for one reader and one subject, so their choices are uneven and specific. Almost every tell below is the generic choice: a contrast that adds weight instead of a fact, a closer that repeats the point, a saying instead of a claim, a superlative instead of a number, bold on every item. Two rules follow. Every sentence must give the reader something they did not have. A tell matters in proportion to how rarely a careful writer would do it on purpose. ## Three jobs **Draft.** You are writing the text. Apply the rules as you write, then run the check at the end. **Edit.** The user gives a draft. Read all of it first. Note the writer's vocabulary, sentence length, and habits, and k