๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ telling Claude Code/Codex "no em dashes".
๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ telling Claude Code/Codex "stop saying delve".
๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ telling Claude Code/Codex "don't sound like AI".
you never gave it a ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ. every README, PR description and landing page ships in the same AI voice, and you ban words one at a time.
orwell wrote the fix ๐ด๐ฌ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ผ. six rules, 1946. paste them into your global CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md and every session picks them up:
โ never use a long word where a short one will do
โ if it is possible to cut a word out, cut it out
โ never use the passive where you can use the active
6 blocks you can copy-paste directly ๐