Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft’s crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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    I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

    Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

    Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

    Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

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      And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn’t “support” it, it’s still totally readable. The formatting doesn’t get in the way of readability.

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      Keeping in mind it’s an advertorial for their apps…

      Not sure what they mean by “weird characters”, but chatbots add zero-width Unicode characters as a watermarking mechanism, and LLMs output their own tags to mark different sections.

      (the “stochastic parrots” expression is already a contradiction, but whatever)