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LLMs seem overpowered for the use the author suggests, finding and marking problems in prose. Actual human-written programs exist for that purpose, things you don't have to bludgeon into not praising you or semantically ablating your work. Start with langtool or the like and start adding others. Even art-bollocks mode for Emacs can be useful.

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What is the actual human-written program that you're thinking of that detects verb nominalization, verifies that the subjects of sentences are actual characters in the action, that new information is placed in the stress position of sentences, and that each paragraph has a clear topic sentence?

I'd love to know. I'll buy it!

It's called "writing skill". But you can just farm that all out to an LLM, if you like.

Google docs fixes all grammatical mistakes.

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