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> I’ve started preferring HTML as an output format instead of Markdown and increasingly see this being used by others on the Claude Code team, this is why. Thi
by alsetmusic 6mo ago
> I’ve started preferring HTML as an output format instead of Markdown and increasingly see this being used by others on the Claude Code team, this is why.
This is why I read long agent output either by using VIM and MacOS Quicklook (with a markdown extension for rendering) or paste output into MarkEdit (an editor with a preview pane; I think it’s cross platform?). Worst case, have an agent build you a simple local web page that interprets Markdown and renders it. Markdown was invented as a shorthand for web syntax[0]. That’s what it’s for! I bet you spend more tokens and time asking an agent to convert its native markdown to html than any of these.
0. https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
- jason1cho 6mo agoIf you want to be vibe all the way, why don't you ask a bot to summarize the long output? Using bots has been insane and self-referrential.
- walthamstow 6mo agoWhile I agree it probably uses more tokens, the author works for Anthropic and has probably never paid for a token
- AndrewSwift 6mo agoWhich Quick Look extension? I've been looking for a good one.
- eddyg 6mo agohttps://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins lists some good ones. (I still use Peek.)