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Bryant Chou: Webflow was the first no-code application
“We created this visual interface over HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and it was sort of, you know, the first no-code application that was out there.”
To: design.md is the recipe, skills are ingredients, HTML is the dish
“The HTML is more like The sort of finished dish, and the MD file is more like the recipe. The skills are like the ingredients.”
Karpathy: Software documentation will shift from human HTML to agent markdown
“Instead of HTML documents for humans, you have markdown documents for agents, because if agents get it, then they can just explain all the different parts of it. So it's this redirection through agents, you know and that's like, so I think we're going to see a…”
Cabane: Web front ends will disappear as LLMs query databases directly
“It is not hard to imagine that the front end of the web disappears. Like the idea of having a database of the content and a website, and then rendering that PHP into HTML, and then having a browser interpret the HTML, and then having a human read like the, thi…”
Rocha: Plain text email is superior to HTML for AI models
“Turns out in today's world, that's actually better than the HTML version because it's easier to parse. You're using less tokens. It's cheaper.”
Goyal: Figma vector formats consume far more LLM tokens than HTML or JSX
“Vectors are very difficult because they're a data inefficient representation, so the vector format in something like Figma Is choose up like many, many, many, many, many more tokens than HTML and JSX. So it's a very difficult medium to just sort of throw into …”
Ek: Ran teenage web business by delegating HTML and Photoshop to classmates
“So I had like all the people in my class that were good at math. I taught them how to do HTML for me, and the people that were really good at design, I taught them Photoshop, so I was basically like running an illegal sweatshop. When I was like, 14.”
Cuban: Smart contracts are Web3's equivalent to HTML and JavaScript
“Smart contracts really are just a programming language that are probably the equivalent of HTML or JavaScript for creating a website. Only these run on a decentralized distributed basis on top of a blockchain.”
Mernit: Basic HTML and CSS will become essential skills for adults
“I think that everyone today more and more is going to need how to, need to know how to write basic HTML, to understand CSS, to have some of the tools to manipulate environments that they live in, and that includes different kinds of scripting. So whether it's …”
Evans: Cryptocurrency in 2017 Resembles the Web in 1994
“Now, if mixed reality is at a sort of a 2006 stage, then crypto or cryptocurrencies feel more like a 2000, sorry, a 1994 stage which is sort of where HTML, HTML was sent.”
PandaDoc templates outrank competitors because they use native HTML over PDFs
“What's fundamentally different about PandaDoc is that PandaDoc is not built on top of PDF. So the templates that we create, they're not PDF files. They're HTML pages. And when you send a document through Panda doc, you pretty much send a link to a web app, to …”