# Artifact slop catalog

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1. Em-dash as a crutch — use a period or a colon that introduces a list.
2. Colon used as a fake sentence connector ("The issue is: it fails").
3. AI vocabulary: delve, landscape, robust, seamless, leverage (as a verb for "use").
4. Metaphor nouns that do not name the thing (`journey`, `north star`, `secret sauce`).
5. Over-compression that drops the subject (`Fixed auth` → "Reject expired session cookies on `/api/me`").
6. Hedging that hides the instruction (`you may want to consider running`).
7. Restating the heading in the first sentence.
8. Decorative adjectives (`comprehensive`, `powerful`, `next-generation`).