I've been building an AI-assisted content pipeline around Codenames AI — field reports from the repo, drafted in markdown, synced to dev.to. The part I assumed would be hard was publish automation. The part that actually burned time was teaching the model how to sound like me.
The experiment
I started where most people start: the prompt. I wrote a Cursor rule with tone guidance, pacing notes, section shapes, and a list of things to avoid. If the draft felt flat, add another paragraph to the rule. If it over-corrected, tighten the rule. Iterate until the voice stabilizes.
That felt like the correct lever.
I assumed a longer, more detailed AI writing rule would produce better drafts. Voice felt like something you could specify in prose: a style encyclopedia with tone, pacing, and guardrails.
