diff --git a/ci/azure/linux_script b/ci/azure/linux_script
index 33c44c51e06c5f62aaf922d2f9ea6a3657a4a6c7..33ad349044ce14b2f0e178fa7465e5f0321ce6df 100755
--- a/ci/azure/linux_script
+++ b/ci/azure/linux_script
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ unset CXX
 
 make $JOBS install
 
-# Look for formatting errors and AST errors.
+# Look for non-conforming code formatting.
 # Formatting errors can be fixed by running `zig fmt` on the files printed here.
-release/bin/zig fmt --check --ast-check ..
+release/bin/zig fmt --check ..
 
 # Here we rebuild zig but this time using the Zig binary we just now produced to
 # build zig1.o rather than relying on the one built with stage0. See