<![CDATA[Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x]]>Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935?s=43

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/987536fb-cd86-4e79-8a30-e96b486e3946/curious-find-of-the-day-the-ai-community-on-x-has-seemingly-re-discovered-the-world-wide-web-in-that-it-now-favours-html-over-markdown-for-agents-to-communicate-with-us-https-xRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 01:39:54 GMTSat, 09 May 2026 16:49:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 22:07:18 GMT]]>@ricmac If not that, then perhaps they'll realize that the semantics of html tags don't match up with their needs, and they'll want extensible language of markup.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/hewer_of_code/statuses/116552554143786742https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.ca/users/hewer_of_code/statuses/116552554143786742Sun, 10 May 2026 22:07:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 21:49:19 GMT]]>@drwho @fionasboots @ricmac

Only in this case obviously a breach of copyright.

LLMs on the other side work pretty well as copyright laundering machines. Like money laundering turns dark money into clean income, copyright laundering turns plagiarized works into original works...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116552483412972664https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/glitzersachen/statuses/116552483412972664Sun, 10 May 2026 21:49:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 21:20:17 GMT]]>@superflippy @ricmac <sighs in BOFH>

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/116552369263541554https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/116552369263541554Sun, 10 May 2026 21:20:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 21:19:45 GMT]]>@fionasboots @glitzersachen @ricmac Not too different from asking applicants to design an entire suspiciously specific thing, not hiring them, and putting the design into production the next day.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/116552367152242625https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/116552367152242625Sun, 10 May 2026 21:19:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 21:04:58 GMT]]>@ricmac eventually they're literally going to create all of programming best practices from first principles and the textbooks from the 80s will be shockingly relevant again.

'So I can just private a function?:

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.group/users/Oggie/statuses/116552309062913053https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://woof.group/users/Oggie/statuses/116552309062913053Sun, 10 May 2026 21:04:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 21:03:55 GMT]]>@pikesley @ricmac Most likely a case of "People are idiots", again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/balglaas/statuses/116552304909268410https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/balglaas/statuses/116552304909268410Sun, 10 May 2026 21:03:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 21:00:48 GMT]]>@ricmac I wait for the moment when they find out that thinking for yourself burns 0 tokens!

That is -100% tokens!

🤣

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/themipper/statuses/116552292677677153https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/themipper/statuses/116552292677677153Sun, 10 May 2026 21:00:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 20:58:52 GMT]]>@ricmac “What if we name tags semantically so that we can reuse styles for items with similar meaning instead of generating tailwind classes on everything?”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://daugherty.nl/users/robin/statuses/116552285056885598https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://daugherty.nl/users/robin/statuses/116552285056885598Sun, 10 May 2026 20:58:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 20:56:24 GMT]]>@ricmac @braddunbar 👀

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/116552275391962793https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/116552275391962793Sun, 10 May 2026 20:56:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 20:37:58 GMT]]>@ricmac @drahardja What happened to tokenmaxing? This sounds like tokenmining — do these people even AI?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ccunning/statuses/116552202848908478https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/ccunning/statuses/116552202848908478Sun, 10 May 2026 20:37:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 20:04:40 GMT]]>@lime @ricmac At %workplace proper documentation is beginning to be a thing nowerdays because the tapeworms otherwise do even more BS

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/fink/statuses/116552071928058595https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/fink/statuses/116552071928058595Sun, 10 May 2026 20:04:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 20:01:29 GMT]]>@ricmac I'm seriously not sure anymore what's satire and what isn't because the world's gone so fucking stupid

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/kyonshi/statuses/116552059398840540https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dice.camp/users/kyonshi/statuses/116552059398840540Sun, 10 May 2026 20:01:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:47:25 GMT]]>@ricmac, what will happen when they discover that a lot of HTML is optional and can be omitted…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/j9t/statuses/116551060376583285https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/j9t/statuses/116551060376583285Sun, 10 May 2026 15:47:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 15:03:26 GMT]]>@fink @ricmac
wait maybe we get the promised web 2.0 for real this time around

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/lime/statuses/116550887440750076https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/lime/statuses/116550887440750076Sun, 10 May 2026 15:03:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:25:32 GMT]]>@ricmac pillocks]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.net.ua/objects/42e9cf48-2298-45b3-ba0e-117eaf053fa4https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.net.ua/objects/42e9cf48-2298-45b3-ba0e-117eaf053fa4Sun, 10 May 2026 14:25:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:13:40 GMT]]>@ricmac also, the use of "burning" is most accurate for LLM use.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/precariousmind/statuses/116550691726106745https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/precariousmind/statuses/116550691726106745Sun, 10 May 2026 14:13:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:11:55 GMT]]>@ricmac sweet mother of God 🫣

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/precariousmind/statuses/116550684873671138https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://neopaquita.es/users/precariousmind/statuses/116550684873671138Sun, 10 May 2026 14:11:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 14:06:39 GMT]]>@ricmac Soon they'll be like...

"Look how you can CODE THINGS into your pages using PHP!"

No shit?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sciences.re/users/Enthalpiste/statuses/116550664136763494https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.sciences.re/users/Enthalpiste/statuses/116550664136763494Sun, 10 May 2026 14:06:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 13:31:25 GMT]]>@ricmac Save your popcorn for the day they discover Java applets.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://functional.cafe/users/nm0i/statuses/116550525621054876https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://functional.cafe/users/nm0i/statuses/116550525621054876Sun, 10 May 2026 13:31:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 13:29:41 GMT]]>@eljojo @ricmac @cassidy That honestly sounds like an art piece

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/tusharhero/statuses/116550518782737655https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/tusharhero/statuses/116550518782737655Sun, 10 May 2026 13:29:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 13:18:56 GMT]]>@iain @mit_scharf @ricmac

Just wait until the token burn subsidy disappears. The subscriptions offered by the platforms or heavily subsidized on the word of 5 to 12 times the token cost.

He can tell all the platforms are squirming at their burn rate because they lose money with every customer and with more usage of the systems.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116550476547774156https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116550476547774156Sun, 10 May 2026 13:18:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 13:02:38 GMT]]>@ricmac

@zzt burning tokens to make HTML.

I feel like they'd be better off not inhaling the fumes from those token fires.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.coffee/users/xinit/statuses/116550412466645434https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.coffee/users/xinit/statuses/116550412466645434Sun, 10 May 2026 13:02:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 12:37:13 GMT]]>@ricmac no way these people are real they have to be chatbots just made to farm engagement

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.maymundere.org/users/djno/statuses/116550312522303866https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.maymundere.org/users/djno/statuses/116550312522303866Sun, 10 May 2026 12:37:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Curious find of the day: the AI community on X has seemingly re-discovered the World Wide Web, in that it now favours HTML over Markdown for “agents to communicate with us”: https://x on Sun, 10 May 2026 12:24:17 GMT]]>@iain 🤯 no way is this real ? This amazes my an leaves me in wonder 😄

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.anoxinon.de/users/mit_scharf/statuses/116550261650731496https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.anoxinon.de/users/mit_scharf/statuses/116550261650731496Sun, 10 May 2026 12:24:17 GMT