ASD-STE100 Prompt Trick Tames Verbose Claude Outputs

To resolve Claude's increasingly verbose responses, developer levelsio shared a prompt trick requiring the model to use ASD-STE100 (Simplified Technical English). Tests show this specification effectively makes the output much easier to read.

2026-08-07 ~ 2026-08-08 · 2 related posts

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