Google Docs now edits .md and .markdown files natively, keeping them as Markdown, in a rollout that began Oct. 5 and can take up to 15 days. Documentation teams can now review the file that actually ships, though reviewers lose some of the visual markup Docs normally keeps.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 42%
- Operator
- Operator 51%
- Investor
- Investor 7%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence65
buildOne report1 publisher Instinct's reported memory relies on keyword matching, not semantic search, with a once-a-day write job
Dhravya Shah spent three days probing the personal agent from the outside and reports git-tracked Markdown searched by keyword, with a background pass he clocked taking 23 hours and 16 minutes to commit one preference.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+28
- Incentives76
- Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher Clarifying one requirement retired the best argument for keeping this agent in bash
The reasoning that kept a small agent in bash was sound, and its author still thinks so. The requirement underneath it turned out to be a preference, and the measurement that settled the question took milliseconds.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption10
- Hype gap−12
- Incentives20
- Confidence57
buildOne report1 publisher Markup filled 263,968 of a scraped product page's 267,361 tokens
Decodo's own runs on ten pages put raw HTML at 3 to 24 times the token count of the same pages as Markdown, with every model still answering correctly and the JSON-LD fields lost in the conversion.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives88
- Confidence44
buildOne report1 publisher An attacker's Markdown playbooks drove a six-hour credential harvest from inside the victim's cloud
Google's Threat Intelligence Group says a suspected financially motivated actor assembled the rig from an AI coding chatbot and preconfigured Markdown files, then ran it inside a compromised cloud tenant.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives62
- Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher The chunker sets the ceiling: how a character boundary turns a correct policy into a wrong answer
A worked example from a dev.to post shows a fixed-size split severing "unless defective" from a refund rule. Retrieval still ranks the mutilated chunk first, and no component reports a fault.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence44
The year's most useful AI tool at one desk was a folder full of Markdown
A Platformer columnist ranks an LLM-maintained personal wiki above every app in the annual productivity roundup. The pilot cost is weeks of attention, not procurement.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives38
- Confidence46