[LarsDu88]

Coincidentally using HTML rather than markdown uses waaaaaay more tokens.

Oh hey look at this blogpost by the company that's selling compute by the token

[Arnt]

I've had Claude produce HTML containing SVG for graphs recently. I could have produced Markdown+PNG. Are you saying that Markdown+PNG would have used fewer tokens?

[cheevly]

Because markdown can totally do all the stuff that this article is about. Did you even read it?