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Anthropic Lead: HTML Increasingly Better Than Markdown at Keeping Humans Engaged in Agentic Loops

Sure, sure - but do not render the complete HTML, that's expensive. Best is to make web components that accept just some attributes, making it possible for the LLM to render an advanced widget with a one-liner. Cheap and less error prone. Been there, done that 😎.

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Lensflare Lensflare

Wait... I need some context here. Surely this is not a comparison between things to make web components with? Because of course markdown will lose then.
Markdown is far better for readability though.

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retoor retoor

Yeah, and actually, you can actually just render markdown in a rich way. Nobody is stopping ya. Tables with nice sortable columns and stuff.

I did not provide a link because my phone generated a fucking Google wrapped URL. It does it these days. Even worse, I shared a YouTube link recently and YouTube showed my username 😡.

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Lensflare Lensflare

one of the problems of markdown is that it's not standardized. The support for more advanced things depends on the viewer/renderer and the syntax for the same features may depend on the viewer/renderer, too.

I only use markdown for basic markup (lul).
Advanced stuff like tables is a mine field and not well readable anyway.

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retoor retoor ↳ @Lensflare

Tables are not supported by all libraries, for sure. Also - strike-through is not.

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retoor retoor

Huh, I often double post. 😅