Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.
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I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —
Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.
Yeah, maybe that's not the gotcha the author thought it would be.
Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.
Keeping in mind it's an advertorial for their apps...
Not sure what they mean by "weird characters", but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.
(the "stochastic parrots" expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)
And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn't "support" it, it's still totally readable. The formatting doesn't get in the way of readability.
While true, doesn't have anything to do with my comment?
Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.
Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard
Hans was the name of one of the German characters in my elementary summer camp fire theater show in which the Americas would call out random German names to get them to stand and shoot them in a World War Two reenactment
Hans what the fuck did I just read?
This is actually a Monty Python sketch that originally plays in the first world war.
Glad it could be revived 100 years later :) didn’t know they were playing Monthy Python that early
Monty Python is timeless ;)
"LOL", I guess?