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AI Writing Tropes to Avoid

Add this file to your AI assistant's system prompt or context to help it avoid common AI writing patterns. Source: tropes.fyi by ossama.is

"This feels like I've been bait and switched TWICE now." — Claude Max subscriber, January 2026

What Anthropic Did:

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mkdir -p /opt/searxng
SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32)
cat &gt; /opt/searxng/settings.yml &lt;&lt; EOF

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	set -euo pipefail

	# patch-claude-code.sh — Rebalance Claude Code prompts to fix corner-cutting behavior
	#
	# What this does:
	# Patches the npm-installed @anthropic-ai/claude-code cli.js to rebalance
	# system prompt instructions that cause the model to cut corners, simplify
	# excessively, and defer complicated work.
	#

	// brain of the whole thing. hard work is done here
	const mapNumber = (number, in_min, in_max, out_min, out_max) => {
	var rangeCalculation = (number - in_min) * (out_max - out_min) / (in_max - in_min) + out_min;
	return Math.round(rangeCalculation);
	};

	// Create an empty array to store the messages
	var messages = [];

	// Loop through the rooms in msg.lightControl because we know only rooms and devices are children of lightcontrol

	import os
	import subprocess
	from typing import List


	def get_conda_envs() -> List[str]:
	"""
	Get a list of conda environments and return their names.
	"""
	# Execute the `conda env list` command and capture its output