Thariq Claude Code engineer just wrote a whole post about why he switched from Markdown to HTML for agent outputs. His own admission: it uses 2-4x more tokens.
Dont know if this is the best advice looking at my rates rn :D
Thariq (@trq212)
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— https://nitter.net/trq212/status/2052809885763747935#m