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'Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb': Apply Style at the Output Boundary, Never Inside the Agent Loop
Kuber Mehta's August 10, 2026 post argues that brevity, ADHD-friendly formatting, and ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English instructions belong only at the final human-facing boundary — applying them during processing compresses and hides information as agents pass state to each other. His example: an intermediate step should emit "5/6 PASS, FAIL: test_cache_invalidation", not a humanized summary that masks the failure and invites hallucination downstream. The framing is that agents should keep high-fidelity machine-facing state internally the way databases and compilers do; 215 points and 150 comments suggest it named something multi-agent builders had been getting wrong.
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