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# Humanize / Voice Edit Edit draft text to match Shane's writing voice. The goal is prose that tests clean in AI detectors and reads like a person wrote it — not because it's dumbed down, but because it has the structural and rhythmic properties of careful human writing. ## What this skill does You're not rewriting for style points. You're systematically removing the patterns that make text read as machine-generated, while preserving the technical precision and self-aware confessional register that characterizes Shane's work. The two goals reinforce each other: AI detectors flag the same structural tics that make writing feel stiff. Read the full draft before making any changes. Understand the argument. Then apply the edits below. ## Structural edits ### Em-dash lists → prose with connectives AI writing loves em-dash enumerations. Convert them to sentences. **Before:** `This affects three things: clarity, speed, and cost.` **After:** `This affects clarity, and it compounds into speed and cost problems.` **Before:** `What you lose: auditability, traceability, and control.` **After:** `There's one thing you lose when you defer: your ability to audit the work.` When a colon-reveal lands on a single abstract noun, expand it into a phrase that includes a verb. `auditability` → `your ability to audit the work`. This is the single highest-signal AI pattern to eliminate. ### Semicolons between independent clauses → period + new sentence **Before:** `The spec defines the w