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This finally stopped Claude's crazy pursuit of talking more and more unintelligible every passing day \> Save in memory to always use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when you talk to me Thank god! 
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Tip via server guy @DanielLockyer
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What it says @levelsio says Claude had become increasingly verbose and hard to understand. He fixed this by telling it to remember: “always use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.”
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The screenshot shows the resulting constraints: active voice, short sentences, one idea per sentence, simple tenses, consistent terminology, and no idioms, slang, or jargon.
Context ASD-STE100 is a controlled-English specification created for technical documentation. The point is not merely “write simply.” It imposes mechanical restrictions that reduce ambiguity and linguistic variation. The thread credits @DanielLockyer for the tip.
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A quoted post says, “The interesting part was what I chose not to fix,” but the supplied material does not explain what that refers to.
Why it matters This is a useful way to constrain an assistant at the language level instead of repeatedly asking for “clearer” answers. A persistent controlled-language rule can make output more predictable, skimmable, and technically precise. The tradeoff is substantial: strict STE can remove useful nuance, natural prose, specialist terminology, and expressive compression.