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How I 5x'd My Writing Speed With AI (and Kept It Human)

Two years ago a 2,000-word report took me a full day. Last month I shipped the same kind of report in 90 minutes. The catch everyone warns about — "AI makes it sound robotic" — is real, but it's solvable. Here's the workflow.

Draft ugly, on purpose

I let AI produce a messy first pass at 10x speed. The goal isn't quality here, it's raw material. I never send the first pass anywhere.

Humanize in one pass

I run it through a fixed prompt: vary sentence length, cut 30% of the words, ban the usual filler, add one concrete example. That single step removes 90% of the "bot smell." The full prompt set that does this for different content types is here: https://felovery.gumroad.com (code FIRST50 = half off, no expiry).

Score before you send

Before anything goes out, I paste it into a free AI-risk scorer: https://humanizeai-lab.pages.dev/tools/ai-risk-scorer.html. If it's over 40%, I re-run the humanize prompt and check again. It takes 20 seconds and saves me from every "this feels AI-generated" reply.

The result

Same quality, a fraction of the time, and zero robotic feedback from readers. The speed isn't from skipping the human touch — it's from doing the human touch faster and checking it automatically.

What's the slowest writing task you'd want to speed up first?

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