Everyone is fighting AI slop by banning words. "No em dashes." "Stop saying delve." It does not work - and a viral thread claimed the real fix is a writing standard built for aircraft mechanics in 1986. So I dug through ASD-STE100 (all 434 pages of it), distilled its rules into an agent skill and a linter, and ran the test nobody had run: 6 real writing tasks x 4 conditions x 2 models. The skill, the linter, and every number from this video: https://github.com/woosal1337/blog/tree/main/videos/ep01-the-cure-for-ai-slop The spec (free): https://asd-ste100.org The thread that started it: @geogristle · @Voxyz_ai · @mikehostetler Find me at: https://chele.bi Chapters: 0:00 The claim 0:46 How this started 2:14 What slop is 3:56 What STE is 5:53 Rule by rule 7:12 Before and after 8:34 The human evidence 10:13 The test 13:44 How I use it 15:11 The verdict