[komali2]

Pause, you could write an HTML to markdown library in half a day? Like, 4 hours? Or 12? Either way damn

[epolanski]

One that gets me 90% there would take me few hours, one that gets me 99% there few months, which is why eventually people would rather pull a dependency.

[williamcotton]

Or about 15 minutes with an LLM?

https://github.com/williamcotton/markdown-to-html-llm

  ;)

[epolanski]

I love how it took you very short to implement...the wrong thing.

> I myself just the other day had the task of converting HTML to markdown

> you could write an HTML to markdown library in half a day

[williamcotton]

LOL! Good point, my friend.

[williamcotton]

Claude Code just added support for HTML to Markdown. Seems to work?

[epolanski]

In any case, not following the point you're trying to make.

[neilv]

In less time than that, you could `git clone` the desired open source package, and text search & replace the author's name with your own.

[williamcotton]

And then still be subject to supply-chain attacks with all of the dependencies in whatever open source package you're cloning?

[xrisk]

you are aware that the app you just wrote with Claude pulls in dependencies, yes?

[williamcotton]

Not for the parser, only for the demo server! And I guess the dev dependencies as well, but with a much smaller surface area. But yeah, I don't think a TypeScript compiler is within the scope of an LLM.