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  1. Comment on Supporting Markdown search for LLMs in ~tech

    mergesort
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    Heya, post-author here! Funny enough you're not the first person to say this after seeing my post. I hadn't considered it until now but I'm building a Reader Mode for the link-saving app I work...

    Heya, post-author here! Funny enough you're not the first person to say this after seeing my post. I hadn't considered it until now but I'm building a Reader Mode for the link-saving app I work on, so I may actually do something with this idea. 🤔

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  2. Comment on Supporting Markdown search for LLMs in ~tech

    mergesort
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    Heya, post-author here! I wrote this post with the underlying assumption that you want to share your content more easily with LLMs. If not, then of course this won't be particularly useful or...

    Heya, post-author here! I wrote this post with the underlying assumption that you want to share your content more easily with LLMs. If not, then of course this won't be particularly useful or beneficial.

    Personally, as you can see from my other writing, I feel positively about the impact AI systems will have on individual learning and growth for people that exercise creativity and critical thinking — but very torn and lean negative on the greater societal implications. That said, my writing is licensed CC (BY) because I write to have people read my work, and to reuse my ideas as they see fit to improve their own lives.

    I spent a lot of time debating whether this improvement loop should apply to agentic systems like ChatGPT, and ultimately came to the conclusion that if this medium is the way that people will be consuming my writing then I want my writing to be there. There are definitely downstream effects of this decision, but ultimately if I'm going to be doing that — to bring it back to the post — I want my writing to be as token-efficient as possible. :)

    To answer your other question about AI search summaries/page ranking, I wrote a complementary post last week about how to optimize your website for AI search — which may provide more context for this general arc of thinking I was going through as I wrote this post about optimizing your website for token-efficiency. All of the other benefits you mentioned also apply! But they weren't my primary goal.

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