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A developer has published a custom output style for Claude Code named 'Caveman ELI5', which enforces ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English in AI responses. The style mandates plain approved words, a…
A developer has published a custom output style for Claude Code named 'Caveman ELI5', which enforces ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English in AI responses. The style mandates plain approved words, a…
Viktorinkov released SHOOK, a plugin that enforces ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English across every Claude Code reply, with hooks that load rules at session start, remind on each prompt, and lint-…
A developer has proposed using Simplified Technical English (STE), a 1970s aerospace standard, to curb the overly dramatic jargon generated by AI coding agents like Claude Code. By injecting STE style…
A developer using Anthropic's Claude Opus model reports that the AI frequently produces confusing analogies and jargon, forcing users to spend extra time and tokens deciphering its responses. The user…
A user's informal test comparing ChatGPT and Claude responses to a humorous gif found ChatGPT's reply more concise, while Claude's response was criticized as verbose and flowery. The user, who calls t…
Claude Code version 2.1.237 introduces a built-in Concise output style that trims verbose responses, replacing the need for custom ASD-STE100-based styles. In tests, the Concise style reduced a 663-wo…
Developer atomic14, author of the 'harmless' project on GitHub, reports frustration with Anthropic's Claude AI assistant after 700 commits, citing that Claude ignored instructions to use ASD-STE100 Si…
A developer reports that changing Claude's output style to Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100) does not improve the quality of its prose, which remains 'vacuous and empty' despite producing good…
Developer Jerod Santo reports that instructing Anthropic's Claude Code to communicate in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, a controlled language standard from the 1970s, eliminates the AI codin…
A viral developer Twitter trend claims that pasting style rules like Orwell's 1946 rules or ASD-STE100 into system prompts improves AI output, but empirical benchmarks show that forcing simple languag…
Pieter Levels, a prominent AI developer, criticized the trend of humanizing LLM outputs through prompt instructions like 'talk to me like I have ADHD' or 'use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English,'…
A developer has created an output style for Claude Code that enforces ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, a controlled language originally developed for the aerospace industry. The style rules li…
STE-Code, a documentation standard adapted from ASD-STE100 Issue 9, achieves a 96.6% pass rate on 59 documentation tests, compared to 11.9% for a plain assistant, a +84.7% improvement. The standard pr…
A new agent skill enforces ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, the controlled language used in aerospace since 1983, to force LLMs to write unambiguous technical documentation. In 96 runs across …
Developer blagoySimandov released an installable skill for ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English that rewrites technical text into shorter, clearer sentences. The skill removes marketing words, geru…
An engineer has published a style guide that applies the ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English standard to AI agent output. The guide instructs agents to use active voice, simple tenses, and short s…
A new open-source toolchain applies ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English to large language model outputs, achieving a 74% reduction in writing violations on Claude Sonnet and a 50% reduction on GPT…