diff --git a/ci/azure/linux_script b/ci/azure/linux_script
index 462457a932..33c44c51e0 100755
--- a/ci/azure/linux_script
+++ b/ci/azure/linux_script
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ unset CXX
 
 make $JOBS install
 
-# look for formatting errors
-release/bin/zig fmt --check --ast-check .. || (echo "Please run 'zig fmt' to fix the non-conforming files listed above." && false)
+# Look for formatting errors and AST errors.
+# Formatting errors can be fixed by running `zig fmt` on the files printed here.
+release/bin/zig fmt --check --ast-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