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> Ask the AI to give me a markdown to html converter, good2go

Why would you do that? There are dozens of libraries which do exactly that. Instead of AI you can ask npm or pip, heck you can even ask CRAN[1].

1: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/markdown/index.html

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Exactly. It tells me the same things. It'll often give me the require() for javascript on packages I should use.

Personally, I don’t see the point. Searching for markdown libraries is not hard, a good library (the same that will show up first) will show you usage instructions at the top. You can copy-paste those and be done.

Also modern JavaScript uses import, require() is very 2015. If the AI is recommending you use require() I would suggest a better one.

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