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thariq from the claude code team basically said markdown is a gpt-4 era habit. back when tokens were expensive and context windows were tiny.

that's gone now. HTML renders, interacts, adds color. markdown just... sits there.

but HTML costs more tokens, sucks to edit by hand, and makes git diffs a mess.

is this actually better or is anthropic just pushing their own artifact ecosystem?

all company documents should eventually be converted to Markdown.
Not because Markdown looks clean. Not because AI "understands" it better.
In the AI era, documents are basically raw material for AI. Files like .docx and PDF have to be parsed, converted, and denoised before they're usable. .md is plain text from the start — just grab and go.
The standard for file formats is quietly shifting — from "easy for humans to read" to "efficient for AI to process."