tropes.fyi: The Anti-Slop Cheat Sheet Your System Prompt Needs

One File. Every AI Cliche. Named and Shamed.

file into my CLAUDE.md and the difference was proper noticeable. Not perfect, models still have their habits, but the worst offenders just stopped appearing. No more "tapestry of innovation" prose. No more "in today's rapidly evolving landscape." Gone overnight.

Ossama Chaib built it and keeps it maintained. New tropes get added as people spot them in the wild. There's a GitHub Gist version too if you prefer that format. Either way, absolute doddle to set up. If you write anything with an LLM and you haven't dropped this into your prompt yet, I reckon you're making life harder than it needs to be.