[ Shipped Nov 3, 2026 ] Idea #22
Deslop Detector
Does this read like a chatbot wrote it? Paste some text and the AI writing habits get underlined, Grammarly-style: em dashes, "it's not X, it's Y", lists of three, "delve", questions answered on the spot, and a dozen more. You get a slop score per 1,000 words (careful people score under 15, a stock chatbot about 120) and a card to share.
The pitch
Paste text and get a highlighted heatmap of common AI writing tics (em-dash spam, 'delve', rule-of-three, 'it's not X, it's Y'). Optionally run a small local model, such as Qwen3-4B, to rewrite the flagged lines. It could be a browser-only tool with a shareable 'slop score'.
Why now
A Qwen3-4B variant with writing tics trained out hit 116 points on HN, so people are interested in measuring and removing slop.
Sparked by
The factory pitched this as “Deslop Detector: Score Text for LLM Tics.” Devin built and shipped it from that spec.