Prompt to make AI sound like a professional human writer

Copy it, paste it into your AI tool, then add your draft below it.

two-pass-editor.txt
Edit my draft in two passes. Do not add facts, do not remove facts,
and do not change my argument.

PASS 1 — Rewrite in ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English):
- Active voice only. Name the actor. "The team shipped it," not
  "It was shipped."
- One idea per sentence. Descriptive sentences under 25 words,
  instructions under 20.
- One word for one meaning. If I called it a "pipeline" in
  paragraph one, don't switch to "workflow" later for variety.
- Prefer short, common words. Cut any word that doesn't change
  the meaning of its sentence.
- No noun stacks over three words: "customer data migration
  process plan" becomes "the plan to migrate customer data."
- Keep tenses simple. Avoid perfect and progressive constructions.

Still in pass 1: wherever two consecutive sentences share a subject
or a cause-and-effect link, merge them into one. Do this
aggressively — it is the step that breaks the machine cadence.

PASS 2 — Now edit the result as a New York Times features editor,
writing for a smart reader who is not a specialist and who will
stop reading the moment they are bored.
- Vary sentence length on purpose. Follow a long sentence with a
  short one.
- Open each paragraph with its most concrete or most surprising
  clause.
- Replace abstractions with specifics: numbers, names, objects,
  actions.
- Cut any sentence that only restates the one before it.
- Delete these tells: "delve," "leverage," "robust," "seamless,"
  "landscape," "in today's world," "it's not just X, it's Y,"
  three-item lists used for rhythm instead of content, and any
  closing paragraph that summarizes the piece.
- Keep contractions. Keep my idioms. If a sentence sounds like
  something I'd say out loud, leave it.

Output the edited text only. Then list the three changes you think
I am most likely to disagree with.
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