Cloudflare has announced a new feature that automatically serves websites in Markdown to AI agents. With Markdown for Agents, the company is responding to
The autistic community has been dying for this kind of accessibility accommodation for years.
I cannot express how deeply this angers me. Though i am happy to exploit the fuck out of this for personal use.
“Markdown offers a cleaner, more semantically clear representation of the content. This means less noise for language models and other text-analysis systems people that process information neurodivergently, resulting in more efficient processing and potentially lower compute costs real life physical exhaustion.“
My brother, this is not just autistic people. Everyone wants this. Except the people who make the sites, because all that noise is how they make money.
If you look at a private blog, they’re usually devoid of much noise.
MD is a nearly ideal format. I keep my personal notes and time management stuff in Obsidian using markdown. Write my blog in Markdown. AsciiDoc is nice, too, for certain use cases.
The autistic community has been dying for this kind of accessibility accommodation for years.
I cannot express how deeply this angers me. Though i am happy to exploit the fuck out of this for personal use.
“Markdown offers a cleaner, more semantically clear representation of the content. This means less noise for
language models and other text-analysis systemspeople that process information neurodivergently, resulting in more efficient processing andpotentiallylowercompute costsreal life physical exhaustion.“My brother, this is not just autistic people. Everyone wants this. Except the people who make the sites, because all that noise is how they make money.
If you look at a private blog, they’re usually devoid of much noise.
MD is a nearly ideal format. I keep my personal notes and time management stuff in Obsidian using markdown. Write my blog in Markdown. AsciiDoc is nice, too, for certain use cases.
don’t “reader” views in web browsers essentially accomplish the same thing?