> Give coding agents access to intellisense and syntax highlighting.
i once asked an LLM if it could ingest code from an interactive session more easily if it were in appropriately-typed markdown fences and it said absolutely yes, and that the syntax highlighting fed to it that way helps it immensely. i was downright shocked that syntax highlighting was anything more than noise for them.
The highlighting isn't what matters, its the pretext. E.g. An LLM seeing "```python" before a code block is going to better recall python codeblocks by people that prefixed them that way.
i once asked an LLM if it could ingest code from an interactive session more easily if it were in appropriately-typed markdown fences and it said absolutely yes, and that the syntax highlighting fed to it that way helps it immensely. i was downright shocked that syntax highlighting was anything more than noise for them.