YAML and other formats offer token-efficient and composable structures, but these structural improvements do not change how the LLM thinks, interacts, or processes context, and therefore do not outperform markdown.

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Those structures don't change how the LLM thinks. It doesn't change how it interacts... We're not achieving anything better than markdown.

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A Quick Lesson Of AI LanguagesShane Murphy
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:50:58 AM

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