The Elements of AI Style

I don’t like the verbosity of AI models and I don’t generally like their prose. Some are better than others, some have better prose that makes it less annoying, some are less sychophantic, also less annoying. But, a universal trait of LLMs is they do go on. LLMs love to ramble and there’s very little we can do about it. But, I still try. My AGENTS.md contains the following, lifted directly from Strunk & White’s Elements of Style: