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Jupyter notebooks also exist. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

I'm also a fan and heavy user of Jupyter notebooks and literate programming in general. I think the use case for runnable mardown files with AI tooling for automation applies to complementary cases.

Having said that, there are ad hoc automation tasks that I've traditionally used Jupyter notebooks to do that I'm finding are easier to get running using markdown files and Claude Code. It's early days and I still am getting a feel for this myself.

There are some comments from earlier with discussion of other literal program tools.

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