{"slug": "copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts", "title": "Copy as Markdown: AI-friendly blog posts", "summary": "Thoughtbot has added a \"Copy as Markdown\" button to its blog posts, allowing users to copy cleanly formatted Markdown to their clipboard. The feature aims to simplify how AI language models consume content by providing Markdown, which uses fewer tokens than HTML. Users can also access the Markdown version by appending \".md\" to any blog post URL.", "body_md": "Our blog posts now have the option to `Copy as Markdown`\n\nto help our robotic friends more easily consume our content.\n\n(It’s just up there, below the title)\n\nClick the button and you will get this blog post copied to your clipboard in cleanly formatted [Markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/getting-started/). Then paste it into any prompt to give your AI the context it needs.\n\n##\n[\nSpeaking their language\n](#speaking-their-language)\n\nMarkdown 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.\n\nWe’ve done a few things to make their lives easier:\n\n- The\n`Copy as Markdown`\n\nbutton - this is mostly for us humans, to more easily pass context to the AI - The Markdown version of any blog is available by appending\n[.md](https://thoughtbot.com/blog/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.md)to the URL - A hint in the\n``\n\nof each post lets requesters know the markdown alternative is available\n\n```\n\n```\n\nThat’s it. No setup, no plugin, no incantation. Just click, paste, and happy contexting.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts", "canonical_source": "https://feed.thoughtbot.com/link/24077/17352975/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts", "published_at": "2026-06-03 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-03 04:40:45.087042+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Markdown", "thoughtbot", "LLMs"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/copy-as-markdown-ai-friendly-blog-posts.jsonld"}}