An engineer got so tired of decoding Claude's writing that he built a plugin that translates it into plain English. 2.3K upvotes on Reddit say he's not alone. It's called claudish-to-english. He tried simplified-English instructions first, even the aerospace writing standard. Didn't change much. So he solved it the 2026 way, by pointing a second AI at the first one. A Claude Code hook catches each finished message over 200 characters and sends it to a local model running through Ollama. The model rewrites it in plain language and appends an "In plain English:" block under the original. Claude never sees the rewrite, and the transcript keeps the original text. The engineering is more careful than the joke suggests: Fails open. If Ollama is down or the call times out, you get Claude's normal output. The plugin cannot eat an answer. The rewriter runs on your machine, and your conversation never leaves it. An optional second hook rewrites Markdown files on disk. Off by default, opt-in per directory. He got annoyed enough to build it, and it holds up. The fix for AI writing turned out to be more AI, running on his own laptop.