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Comment by bigfishrunning

5 hours ago

But why be exclusive? Why not "Chart language for computer programs to generate"?

I don't want to use an agent at all, but i wouldn't mind generating some charts with an easy-to-generate markup language...

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fernie  4 hours ago

But for that we already have mermaid.js (and its precursor Graphviz/dot).

The only reason to use this instead of existing, mature ones designed for humans is if you are an AI agent.

  • drob518  2 hours ago

    Why can’t AIs generate for the “existing, mature ones?” Like the other commenter said, I’m not sure I get the “this is totally for AI” marketing. Why can’t AI use the existing ones and why can’t humans use this?

  • avadodin  3 hours ago

    Mermaid looks terrible.

    It is only better than nothing for the purpose of showing it to people whether produced by an LLM, by a human, or by both.

    Your employees may just accept the internal slop, but at some point, you have to show your charts to your customer.