Yeah this is not needed and every single day it is needed even less.
Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
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Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#12So this is one interface that can render to multiple charting backends?
If AI is writing the "Flint", why not just have it write the backend code instead? I'm not sure why I would want pluggable charting backends.
I can see an argument for providing simpler APIs for LLMs, though, so that it can be more token efficient for example.
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#13Why is this "for the AI era"? Isn't it kind of not for the AI era since an LLM can create a gnarly python or js chart of whatever you want in seconds?
Nowadays you either create something with or for AI.
Like you created you own framework for wen apps before.
"For the AI era" is the necessary buzzword
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#14This is just json right? One issue with llms right now it's that if you give them a json specification, they're not always amazing at following it. I think it makes sense to have an agent tool that takes llm json, a file name and a spec path and only writes out the file if it conforms.
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#15unfortunately JSON is doomed to fail in "the AI era"
LLMs are surprisingly bad at generating JSON.
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#16unfortunately JSON is doomed to fail in "the AI era" LLMs are surprisingly bad at generating JSON.
Why is that?
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#17unfortunately JSON is doomed to fail in "the AI era" LLMs are surprisingly bad at generating JSON.
Are they in 2026? I haven't had an issue with json and LLMs in a long while
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#18Does it do flowcharts and arch diagrams? Doesn’t seem like it.
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#19Can it respond to my several open github tickets?
Re: Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
#20Even in the Era AI, GGPlot's API is still the best charting API. The name "Grammar of Graphics" isn't just marketing, they literally sought to write a god damn grammar to was capable of expressing all possible qualitative graphics. They even wrote a book about how they went about it (not that it speaks to the quality of the API) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-387-28695-0 I actually stumbled upon this book w…
Note that if you are affiliated with a University you probably can download a pdf of the book in the link for free.