vibecoded-design-tells

Strips the cues that make prose read as AI-generated and forces a deliberate human voice instead of the model's default register. It has no house style and does not write for you. It removes the cited tells (the em dash, the "it's not just X, it's Y" cadence, assistant boilerplate, the delve/tapestry diction, listicle scaffolding, the "in conclusion" wrap-up) and warns against the over-corrected "trying not to sound like AI" register that swaps one default for another. Grounded in a Reddit analysis of 89,239 posts (7,984 on-topic) across roughly 50 AI, writing, and SaaS subreddits of what people name as a giveaway. Use when writing, drafting, editing, rewriting, reviewing, or auditing any prose for a reader (a post, email, essay, README, or marketing copy), and especially when the user wants it to sound human rather than AI, or says it "sounds like ChatGPT," "reads like AI," "is too polished," "de-slop this," or "make it sound like me." Trigger even if they never say "AI tell."

Strips the tells that make source code read as AI-generated and forces code that fits the project instead of the model's default average. It does not write the code for you and it has no preferred style. It removes the surface tells (leftover chat artifacts, placeholder comments, emoji, swallowed errors, narrating comments, generic placeholder names like process_data) AND points you at the structural tells a linter passes: boilerplate / tutorial-shaped code, hallucinated APIs, over-engineering, and code that ignores the surrounding codebase. Grounded in a Reddit analysis of 11,906 posts and 11,306 comments across 55 AI, coding, and SaaS subreddits of what developers actually name as a giveaway. Use whenever writing, generating, reviewing, refactoring, or auditing code, and especially when the user wants it to not look AI-written or vibe-coded, says it "looks AI-generated," "reads like a tutorial," "is too generic," or "de-slop this." Trigger even if they never say "AI tell."

Strips the cues that make a website read as AI-generated and forces a deliberate, project-specific design choice instead of the model's default. It does not impose a look or hand you taste. It removes tells (default shadcn/Tailwind, AI-purple gradients, gradient heading text, unprompted neon glow, emoji-as-icons, the centered hero plus three feature cards) AND the newer cream-plus-serif-plus-sage "tasteful default" that trading one default for another creates. Grounded in a 47-subreddit, 3.2M-post Reddit analysis of what people flag as AI slop. Use whenever building, styling, reviewing, refactoring, or auditing any website, landing page, web app UI, dashboard, or front-end component, especially when the user wants a site to look custom or human rather than AI-generated, or mentions AI slop, looks AI-made, generic, vibe-coded, Tailwind, or shadcn. Trigger even if they never say vibe-coded.