remove-ai-slop
Audit the actual interface, not just a list of fashionable motifs. Remove unmistakable defaults forcefully. Judge softer patterns by whether they fit the product, content, and brand or merely repeat a learned template.
Never turn the cleanup into another house style. Do not make every interface flat, dark, minimally rounded, or monochrome by default.
Use three verdicts
HARD BAN
Use this only for exact unfinished-copy, semantic-duplication, consequential-ambiguity, fabricated-evidence, or similarly objective definitions below. One confirmed occurrence is enough. Visual taste, common components, geometry, fonts, and decorative motifs do not qualify by themselves.
Use this verdict:
HARD BAN — [pattern]. [Why it fails]. Remove it. [Repair direction].
Allow only the narrow semantic exceptions listed with that pattern. “It is a brand choice” is not evidence by itself.
STRONG PRESUMPTION
Use this for patterns that can work but usually read as defaults when unsupported or repeated. Require a concrete product, content, functional, or documented brand reason to keep one.