Carson Gross, author of htmx, argues that in the agentic coding era, Markdown is transitioning from mere documentation to actual source code. He proposes that Markdown specifications should be version-controlled in /src alongside the code they produce, and that generated code and tests should be derived from persisted Markdown rather than ephemeral prompt sessions.
Background
As AI coding agents become mainstream, developers are shifting from hand-coding to prompt-driven code generation, raising questions about what constitutes 'source code' and how projects should be structured and versioned.
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- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 21, 2026 at 10:27 PM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10