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Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by Computer0 »

chickensong wrote: post #77
elkoan wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've yet to see Anthropic promote any sort of token optimization strategy to its users - they always assume we all have infinite inference. "No bread? Let them eat cake!"

Not sure how you use CC, but the last 6 months has felt like significant optimization efforts to me. Last year Claude would just read and edit files, now it's all kinds of basic tool gymnastics with grep/awk/sed/etc to narrowly slice and avoid token-heavy reads. Resuming sessions that aren't even that large get a scary prompt about using a significant portion of your token budget if you continue without compacting. T…

I completely agree but hadn’t found a way to put it to words. It could be the model too trained on optimized strategies

Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by yokoprime »

readitalready wrote: post #41

I moved from Markdown to JSON for all spec writing about 9 months ago. Although not HTML, it still has the same benefits. Claude and the other models are just so much more reliable in a structured format like JSON/HTML/XML. The most important thing is that I can run static analysis on a structured format. This is important even for my spec documents. I can write data fields and have static analysis analyze it. For ex…

I think this is super interesting, but i think you and the OP is talking about two different problems: presenting text to end users and structuring text for agents

Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

GreenJacketBoy wrote: post #58

The problem I have with this shift is that you basically give up on writing documentation by hand, not only for you, but for everybody who might want to edit your documentation. I'm also not convinced that it solves meaningful problems : > I've found I tend to not actually read more than a 100-line markdown file, and I certainly am not able to get anyone else in my organization to read it. But HTML documents are much…

>But HTML documents are much easier to read, [than markdown]

Presumably you mean rendered HTML rather than the source documents?

Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by utopiah »

The unreasonable effectiveness of the most popular "programming" language used by the most people on Earth ever that has been careful crafted by extremely dedicated people for decades and that is use to communicate by, to and from the most people that ever existed (because yes, most "apps", on mobile at least but even more and more on desktop are just HTML pages too).

Is it really unreasonably effective?

Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by archpulse »

tmhrtly wrote: post #21

My concern here is that by gravitating to HTML you lose the ability for a human (you!) to easily co-author the document with the LLM. If it’s just an explainer for your consumption, that’s not a concern - but if it’s a spec sheet for something more complex, I deeply value being able to dive in and edit what is produced for me. With a HTML doc it is much harder to do that than with MD. Now of course you could just rep…

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Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

utopiah wrote: post #95

The unreasonable effectiveness of the most popular "programming" language used by the most people on Earth ever that has been careful crafted by extremely dedicated people for decades and that is use to communicate by, to and from the most people that ever existed (because yes, most "apps", on mobile at least but even more and more on desktop are just HTML pages too). Is it really unreasonably effective?

I always worry about posting comments like this. A lot of tech bros are like "form logical arguments about why this clickbait isn't clickbait otherwise you are a troll". You beat me too it. Thanks for your service.

I also love how maybe 10% of the posts on here are like "some thing that has existed for 40+ years ,/:/; Claude/chatgpt". So much advertising at the expense of a dead internet it's ridiculous.

Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

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Post by danieldisu »

arianvanp wrote: post #94

The irony of this being a Twitter post with pictures of html rendering instead of an interactive html page is not lost on me. Arguing for html on a platform with less rich semantics than markdown is just ultimately funny

Don't get me started on the "templating" for Twitter Articles, it doesn't even support markdown...
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