Our blog posts now have the option to Copy as Markdown
to help our robotic friends more easily consume our content.
(It’s just up there, below the title)
Click the button and you will get this blog post copied to your clipboard in cleanly formatted Markdown. Then paste it into any prompt to give your AI the context it needs.
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Markdown is the lingua franca of LLMs and giving them the ability to read Markdown simplies their job (and uses fewer tokens) compared to parsing HTML directly.
We’ve done a few things to make their lives easier:
- The
Copy as Markdown
button - this is mostly for us humans, to more easily pass context to the AI - The Markdown version of any blog is available by appending
.mdto the URL - A hint in the
<head>
of each post lets requesters know the markdown alternative is available
<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="https://thoughtbot.com/blog/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.md">
That’s it. No setup, no plugin, no incantation. Just click, paste, and happy contexting.