The New Stack
7/6/2026

Andrej Karpathy, Google and Garry Tan agree Markdown is the answer, but they’re not solving the same problem
Short summary
Andrej Karpathy, Google, and Garry Tan endorse Markdown for AI applications, but apply it to different problems. The New Stack explores how the same format serves distinct purposes across AI tooling contexts.
- •Multiple prominent AI figures agree on Markdown's utility
- •Same format solves different problems in different contexts
- •Requires familiarity with AI tool ecosystem landscape
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