HN Floats ASD-STE100 — Aerospace's Controlled English Standard — as an Anti-Slop Prompting Discipline

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A post proposing ASD-STE100, the Simplified Technical English standard used in aerospace maintenance documentation, as a constrained vocabulary for writing to and from LLMs reached HN at 13 points with 2 comments. The pitch, framed as "the cure for AI slop," is that a standard already engineered for unambiguous machine- and non-native-reader parsing is a better prompt-authoring grammar than ad-hoc natural language. Low engagement means this is a signal to watch rather than a validated technique — it is a single-source idea post, not a study.