Hey DEV community! 👋

A few days ago, I built a VS Code extension called Marksmith to fix the most annoying parts of writing Markdown (like pasting Excel tables and syncing preview scrolls).

But recently, I noticed a huge shift in my own workflow: Half the Markdown I write isn't for humans anymore. It’s being fed directly into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini as prompts and context.

When you're constantly stuffing docs into context windows, two things happen:

You worry about hitting context limits (or racking up API costs).