Good article, but I think it misdiagnoses the problem. Chromium is complex because what it implements is complex. Dillo is smaller because it doesn't support as many features. It's a solution to a simpler problem. Still, great article.
I like Markdown as is from a writing perspective. I wrote a recursive descent Markdown parser for a project recently, and I quickly realized how painfully ambiguous Markdown is. Lists (specifically nested lists) are the worst offenders.
Despite CommonMark, I find that many common Markdown parsers tend to "do it their own way" when it comes to edge cases. So I like this. This seems less ambiguous and easier to parse. But I don't think I'm going to be switching from regular Markdown anytime soon.
I agree with this completely; ChatGPT search is perfect for most use cases. I find it to be better than OpenAI's deep research in my experience-- it often uses 2-3x the sources, and has a more comprehensive, well-thought-out report. I'm sure there are still cases where deep research is preferable, but I haven't come across those yet.
I believe this is just the normal mode. In my experience, you don't have to select the web search option to make it search the web. I wonder why they have web search as an option at this point (to force the llm to search?)