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by jason1cho 38 days ago
Markdown was a hype in late 2010s that has cooled down due to chatbots.

In turn, chatbots pump up markdown by making it the default output format.

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I've felt the opposite. With MD being the preferred planning+documentation output for LLMs, the time of "hype" seems to be now. It seemed just a few years ago that devs hated writing properly formatted markdown.
> has cooled down due to chatbots.

What in the world.