The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting for AI tools is usually X, viral GitHub repositories and Hacker News. One of these tells I’ve been seeing a lot lately is skills like I have ADHD and Agents.md instructions such as giving outputs in only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English . I understand the appeal, none of us really like the verboseness and specific quirks of LLM outputs, but I really think fixing that by humanising the model is the wrong abstraction. The problem is that these instructions are not applied after the model has finished doing the work, it becomes part of the same work - If you tell an agent to use short sentences, avoid jargon, never overwhelm you and only include the most important details, you are asking it to continuously compress its output into a lower-bandwidth format. That compression is lossy. You probably never notice what got dropped because the output still reads nicely. ASD-STE is a great example because it sounds so reasonable.…