These are deterministic, source-backed cards from the offline export. They are not live AI answers.
Public markdown mirrors may have a trust problem because AI systems cannot easily verify that markdown content matches the HTML version without fetching both.
@@tjrobertson52 · asserts
Should you have a markdown version of your website? Well, probably, but not for the reason most people are saying. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's back up a little bit. Markdown is just a simple way to format a text file. The reason everyone's suddenly talking so much about markdown is because it's the preferred format of AI or large langu...
Everyone's getting markdown versions of their websites for the wrong reason. The REAL use cas...
@@tjrobertson52 · 2026-04-14
Should you have a markdown version of your website? Well, probably, but not for the reason most people are saying. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's back up a little bit. Markdown is just a simple way to format a text file. The reason everyone's suddenly talking so much about markdown is because it's the preferred format of AI or large langu...
Should you have a markdown version of your website? Well, probably, but not for the reason most people are saying. If you don't know what I'm talking about, let's back up a little bit. Markdown is just a simple way to format a text file. The reason everyone's suddenly talking so much about markdown is because it's the preferred format of AI or large language models. If you're trying to share information with AI, markdown is the most efficient way to do it. And so for years now, there have been services that'll t...
ng to realize how valuable it is to have all important information in a markdown version, not so much for being discovered by AI, but for internal use. Developers are now writing their developer docs in markdown. Even Google, who has been telling us for years, we don't need a markdown version of our website, just rewrote their developer docs in markdown. This is because if you're utilizing AI the right way, it almost never makes sense for a human to read this kind of documentation, or really any documentation. Y...
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