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Failure patterns, evaluation practice, and diagnostic method from engagements on LLM, RAG, NLP, and agent systems already running in production.

A cartoon robot reads a bedtime story to a worried child entirely in clipped noun phrases.

August 15, 2026

The weird way Claude speaks has a name. And here's how to fix it.

By John Licato

The AI models I use every day started writing in a way I could barely read. The pattern has a name: asyndetic parataxis. Here is how to identify it, and the prompt that stops it.

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