How to Make AI Writing Sound Human: Structure Over Words
PawelHuryn · x · 2026-08-16
Author Paweł Huryn shares a "Humanize" Claude Skill designed to remove AI tells from drafts. He argues that "AI slop" lives in structure, not vocabulary, and proposes an editing order: structure first, rhythm second, words last.
Common structural failures include:
- Negative parallelism stacks ("It's not X. It's Y.")
- Self-clapping phrases ("Here's the kicker")
- Artificial enthusiasm (no negative sentiment)
- Excessive recaps and signposted transitions
Huryn notes that common advice like writing in "Simplified Technical English" makes text read like an IKEA manual and fails to bypass AI detectors. The skill can be saved as a .claude/skills/humanize/SKILL.md file for Claude Code or used as a manual checklist.
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