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How to align coding agents with your plans better than markdown, without burning tokens

DEV.to AIΒ·May 14, 2026

This article proposes that the misalignment between users and AI coding agents is a UI problem, not a model problem, suggesting agents should emit HTML instead of Markdown. It introduces using screenshots for context compression, inspired by DeepSeek-OCR, to enable HTML use at every plan stage without increasing token costs.

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