How I teach AI to write like me
Write Like Shahid
I got tired of editing the same bad habits out of every AI draft, so I wrote The voice prompt. Makes AI write in Shahid's voice instead of the generic one.Click to copy to clipboard. the hard way, over many drafts. It encodes how I actually think and speak: plain, direct, contrarian when the evidence warrants, and useful to a busy operator. Two audit prompts grew out of it, and all three live on this page. Borrow them, adapt them, make them yours.
The three prompts at a glance
- The voice prompt. Makes AI write in Shahid's voice instead of the generic one.Click to copy to clipboard., the voice prompt. Put it in front of anything you ask AI to draft.
- The everyday audit. Finds the smells, rewrites, and scores both versions.Click to copy to clipboard., a quick pass on a draft that already exists. Lists the smells, rewrites it, scores both versions.
- The professional editor audit. A full editorial pass for work you mean to publish.Click to copy to clipboard., a full editorial pass for something you mean to publish.
The voice prompt
This is the one I hand to AI before any drafting work. Open The voice prompt. Makes AI write in Shahid's voice instead of the generic one.Click to copy to clipboard. below, edit it until it sounds like you, then paste it ahead of whatever you ask AI to write.
Typical or everyday writing audit
Paste any draft at the bottom of The everyday audit. Finds the smells, rewrites, and scores both versions.Click to copy to clipboard.: yours, a colleague's, or an AI's. It lists every smell it finds, rewrites the piece in plain language, and scores both versions so you can see what changed.
Professional editor audit
The professional editor audit. A full editorial pass for work you mean to publish.Click to copy to clipboard. treats your draft as a manuscript. It checks whether the idea actually reaches the reader, working the way a real editor works: meaning first, then the argument, the evidence, the structure, then the sentences, with AI smells handled last. Use it for anything you intend to publish.
Nothing on this page is saved or sent anywhere. Edits you make to a prompt live only in this browser tab.