Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

A new AI writing add-on is promising something gloriously unsexy: make chatbots stop sounding like motivational LinkedIn posts and start sounding like a safety manual. The pitch is simple but sharp — it forces AI to write in ASD-STE100, a stripped-down form of English created for aerospace manuals so tired mechanics do not misunderstand instructions. In the demo, vague corporate mush becomes blunt, almost militarily clear sentences. The creator even flexes the stats: fewer rule violations, shorter sentences, fewer wasted words, and, in perhaps the funniest metric of all, “seamlessly” survived 0.

But the real action is in the comments, where the community instantly turned this into a mini culture war. One camp loved it on sight: one user said they wanted to use it on emails and Slack, which says a lot about how tired people are of bloated office-speak. Another simply dropped a cheerful “nice :-) i’ll try that! thx,” the digital equivalent of grabbing the tool and running. Then came the nitpickers, who did the most internet thing possible and started rewriting the simplified English itself. One commenter suggested an even tighter version of the example sentence, proving that once you invite the clarity police in, they will inspect every word.

And yes, there was backlash. One skeptic rolled their eyes and asked if this was just “this week’s mindless productivity/AI-bro trend,” while another landed the sharpest joke in the thread: “‘Skill’, ‘Force’ — Pick one.” Translation: people like the idea of clearer writing, but they are absolutely going to roast the branding while they do it.