Rise of markdown and mermaid
How many times did you use a Markdown file before 2021? I am guessing - not many. Like most engineers, I used MS Word for almost everything. Architecture documents, tech notes, bug reports - Word was the default choice. It was easy to write, format, and share. It just worked. But AI changed that. When you work with an LLM, plain text is king. You type your thoughts, the model reads it and responds. Simple. But ask it to edit a Word file? Most models cannot do that well. Word uses a binary format that LLMs do not handle easily. Plain text, on the other hand, is something every model understands. ...