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Please point out the claudeisms, I want to clear them all.

V1 looked like complete Opus slop, but since I make many little sites all the time I can get it to undo a lot of them, one at a time. I just explicitly tell it the aesthetic to avoid per-element (like the famous left border), and eventually it looks okish.

Edit: Ah and for text, Standard Technical English is a good instruction to give it, but I also told it to be dry and technical, and no embelish or do storytelling. And some manual editing out of cringe stuff still after that.

I don't think you can fix the Claude tells without rewriting everything on your own - but I do read/write a lot for work, so I think about voice a lot. Here's a handful of sentences that I feel a human would not have used but which are common Claude constructions:

"the alarming ones that are harmless" - We don't put dependent clauses at the end of sentences like this except for unusual emphasis

'quietly' - overused by Claude

the entries here are the moments where the guesswork shows - same as first example

"none of this needs damage or disease" - Also would be written differently as a human. Just try saying some of these things aloud and you'll feel odd

'unknown. nobody has counted it'

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