HTML Is the New Markdown (opens in new tab)

A response to Thariq Shihipar's "HTML is the new markdown" post — and a practical answer for anyone watching their per-request costs creep up. The tweet that started it On May 8, Thariq Shihipar — a member of the Claude Code team at Anthropic — posted what is now one of the most-discussed dev takes of the quarter: "HTML is the new markdown. I've stopped writing markdown files for almost everything and switched to using Claude Code to generate HTML for me." The case he made was genuinely compe...