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Terrettayesterday at 3:56 PM0 repliesview on HN

The source doc and the gist name dozens of specific bad patterns by label (“Negative Parallelism,” “Gerund Fragment Litany,” etc.) and repeat examples of them.

An LLM guide would do better to avoid every one of those labels and examples, since the whole point is not to prime the pattern.

Instead each instruction should describe the positive shape of good writing – what a well-constructed sentence, paragraph, or piece actually looks like.

Following this line, here is Claude rewriting OP:

https://gist.github.com/abuisman/05c766310cae4725914cd414639...

// This post’s typography and Oxford commas by human hands.