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You could always tell your LLMs to just fix your grammar but not embelish, add new ideas, etc..


This is what I do when using AI to read anything I write. Some prompt like "I am going to share with you something I have written and I don't want you to change my voice at all. Can you look for structural issues, grammar or punctuation errors, and things like that". Claude is an amazing editor and I never feel like my writing has been taken from me doing this.


I usually tell it not to rewrite my words, my words are my own. If it has suggestions to tell me what those are, but only fix or show me grammar fixes instead.


Does that work?


It works really well. I've been using this prompt to find spelling and grammar errors for about a year now: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...


"fix english" is the prompt i wish to turn into a button




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