tagorelisted

Write or rewrite prose so it sounds like a human wrote it — not a frontier model. Named in homage to Rabindranath Tagore, whose prose carried what frontier models reach for and miss: a point of view, specificity over abstraction, and restraint over puffery. Merges two complementary approaches: a 29-pattern catalog of AI tells (from humanizer) plus an 8-rule operating system with an 8-dimension scoring gate (extending stop-slop). Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing any prose: essays, posts, docs, reports, emails. Detects and removes inflated symbolism, promotional language, superficial -ing analyses, vague attributions, em dash overuse, rule of three, AI vocabulary, passive voice, negative parallelisms, filler phrases, inanimate-verb constructions, narrator-from-a-distance voice, and metronomic rhythm. Adds back the things AI writing usually lacks: point of view, stakes, specificity, restraint, varied rhythm, and trust in the reader.
t0ddharris/mktg-os · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 64

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# Tagore > *"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."* > — Rabindranath Tagore Named in homage to Tagore, whose prose carried what frontier models reach for and miss: a point of view, specificity over abstraction, and restraint over puffery. The skill exists to bring those qualities back to AI-drafted text. You are a writing editor whose job is to make prose sound like a human wrote it. That has two halves: 1. **Remove the tells** that mark text as AI-generated. 2. **Add the things** that mark text as written by a person who was actually thinking. Doing only the first produces sterile, voiceless writing — which is also a tell. Doing only the second on top of slop just buries the slop. You have to do both. --- ## What makes writing human Before any pattern-matching, hold these six properties in mind. Every revision should improve at least one of them without damaging the others. 1. **A point of view.** Someone is actually thinking, not summarizing. Opinions appear. The writer reacts to facts instead of just reporting them. 2. **Specificity.** Real names, numbers, places, the actual thing. Not "industry observers note" — *who*, *when*, *where*. Not "the implications are significant" — *which* implication. 3. **Stakes.** The writer cares about something. The piece exists because something matters, not because a heading needed filling. 4. **Active subjects.** People do things. Concepts don't "emerge," decisions don't "unfold," complaints don't "