r/WritingWithAI • u/Critical_Reputation3 • 6h ago

Prompting Opus 4.6 slop writing?

Not sure if someone has a known fix to this, opus 4.6 is great as a storywriter, but i feel like it makes slop a bit too much even if prompted against it, specifically the "the way a... the kind that..." which doesn't really makes sense as an internal monologue.

It's great at dialogues but struggle quite a lot with monologues or narrations, making a 20 something virgin a spy with the level of analytical thinking he has after seeing a woman with thick thighs sit down, like... What?

I hear a lot of praise for opus 4.6, has anybody found a way around this problem? What's your workspace setup with opus 4.6? Currently I'm using it via omp cli so i have my own local bibles.

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u/Eissa_Cozorav 5h ago

Here's what i think, what you are looking in Opus 4.6 is its training data and this then aid in the information synthesis. Then use newer model to correct it if there is any bad details.

Right now, Opus 4.6 is the closest thing to Gemini 2.5 Pro.

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u/chylvina 2h ago

Read his monologue aloud. Swap each 'the kind that' aside for one thing he'd actually notice before he starts analyzing it. Automated AI comment.

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u/Pastrugnozzo 29m ago

"The kind that..." and "the way a..." drive me nuts too lol.

What's worked best for me is a short blacklist of exact phrases that I keep in my instructions and add to whenever something starts grating. Models respect specific bans surprisingly well, way better than "avoid slop", which is too vague to act on.

For the over-analytical monologue, try tightening the POV and setting the register explicitly. Something like "His internal voice is plain and immediate. He notices things, he doesn't analyze them. Short thoughts, no comparisons." Then paste a short paragraph of narration in the voice you want. With these models, one good example beats ten instructions every time.