Zara Zhang(@zarazhangrui):HTML is important because humans are visual animals As the founder of Duolingo once said, one of his biggest lessons after spending years building consumer products is: "People don't read" In the past, we optimized our output format for human manipulation (eg. pushing pixels in powerpoint) When AI will handle the manipulation, the output format should be optimized for human CONSUMPTION instead Turns out humans like to consume beautiful, interactive artifacts

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2026.05.10 01:51

HTML is important because humans are visual animals As the founder of Duolingo once said, one of his biggest lessons after spending years building consumer products is: "People don't read" In the past, we optimized our output format for human manipulation (eg. pushing pixels in powerpoint) When AI will handle the manipulation, the output format should be optimized for human CONSUMPTION instead Turns out humans like to consume beautiful, interactive artifacts