https://www.sunilshahu.com/tags/markdown/Recent content in Markdown on Sunil ShahuHugo -- 0.157.0en-usSat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.sunilshahu.com/posts/rise-of-markdown-and-mermaid/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.sunilshahu.com/posts/rise-of-markdown-and-mermaid/<p>How many times did you use a Markdown file before 2021?</p> <p>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.</p> <p>But AI changed that.</p> <p>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.</p>