Stop Programming in Markdown (opens in new tab)

Amidst a rising sea of AI hype, we see LLMs being used in situations where it makes no sense. Instead of describing business processes with regular code, companies encode logic with elaborate Markdown prompts passed to LLMs. This is effectively programming in Markdown, using the world's slowest and least reliable interpreter, an LLM, running at 10,000x the cost and latency and with dramatically worse privacy and security.