LarsDu88 wrote: post #2

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

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

Re: Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

Post by Arnt » Wed, May 20, 2026, 11:36 AM UTC

LarsDu88 wrote: post #2

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

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?

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