> Inability to change the response style In recent months, I’ve been noticing a new pattern in sentence structure more and more often. Here are some examples: There’s a difference between "I read the text" and "I understood the meaning of the text". We too often mistake "I’m used to this" for "I like this". The path from "I’m afraid of making a mistake" to "I’m ready to try" can take years.

It’s worth taking the time to setup a style guide for your agent to remove llm-isms like this. Somewhat paradoxically, you can even have the agent help write it. Just include a couple of snippets of “bad” phrasing from previous chats, add some commentary about why it’s bad, and what to replace it with, and put that in your system prompt. I could provide examples but the whole point is that you can tailor it to exactly how you want it. This has the added bonus of being a quick sanity check for model quality. If you start noticing llm-ism appear, then likely the model is not following your instruction’s and the thread should be discarded/you need to switch to a better model