Robert TaFounder & CEO, Clarity · Building Hyper-Personalized Agents

You can't subtract your way to a voice

21 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, Robert Ta introduces StopSlop, a GitHub‑hosted skill designed to strip AI‑generated “tells”—such as filler phrases, throat‑clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and excessive adverbs—from text. He explains his workflow: using AI to draft roughly 80 % of a piece, then applying StopSlop to eliminate about 85 % of the remaining AI‑style artifacts, before performing a final human edit for the last 20 % to add voice and soul. While the tool significantly cleans up the copy, Ta notes that the output can still feel AI‑like and lacks genuine personality. He recommends StopSlop to any AI‑content creator who wants cleaner, more human‑friendly prose.

Thousands of developers needed a skill file to stop Claude from sounding like Claude. Thop Slop is this GitHub project with a skill file that is just a skill for removing AI tells from your copy or your writing. There are a bunch of phrases and stuff here that stops your slop from getting out the door. Cut filler phrases, remove throat clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs.
I guess what I'm wondering is when it says don't do this, does it give better alternatives?
This is how I think of it. Like, I use AI to create me something that's like maybe 80% there, and the last mile, 20%, it's got to be me. And this maybe removes like 85%. Like, I, I think it— when I've used this, it still comes out feeling AI-like, and there's no soul to it, so to speak. Uh, for any AI builder out there that's got to create content or write stuff, uh, that goes out to other humans and you don't want it being sloppy, check out StopSlop. I think it's a pretty decent skill. I've used it a bunch myself.