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Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

tstrimple wrote: post #50
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you signed up with your Apple on the iOS Claude app, to access your account on the computer, you have to open the passwords app and copy your random email address and paste it into the Claude website login. Isn't this basically Apple's fault? When you signed up, Apple provided a fake email address in leu of your real one. This is great for privacy but means the service has the wrong email. I'm sure they didn't w…

Not really. It's the user's fault. Apple provides an option to hide your email, it's not required. It's an option that shows up when you're prompted to create an account.

Oh, I agree with this.

My original thinking was that Apple makes it too easy for a general audience to hide their email without considering the implications (the service won't know your email). But of course there's a tension here, since you also want the option to be easy and accessible.

The party I do not consider at fault in this case is Anthropic.

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by darepublic »

ar0b wrote: post #61
darepublic wrote: post #48

When I ask chatgpt to create a mermaid diagram for me it regularly will add new lines to certain labels that will break the parse. If you then feed the parse error back to it the second version is always correct And it seems to exactly know the problem. There are some other examples where it will almost always get it wrong the first time but right if nudged to correct itself. I wonder what the underlying cause is

"Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs " - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.14982 What instance of ChatGPT are you doing that with? (Reasoning?)

Observed from 5.2, on chatgpt.com. earlier versions did worse.. as in, they might take a few prompts to generate a parseable syntax. Newer versions just usually deliver one unparseable version then get it right second try. Likely I could prompt engineer to one shot but I think I would always need the specific warning about newlines.

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by throwatdem12311 »

mchusma wrote: post #70
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you actually used their products? They are janky, full of bugs and barely work half the time. They write 100% of their code with Claude. Some of their engineers apparently burn over 100k worth of tokens per month. It’s not surprising they ship fast at all when the product is actually falling apart at the seams and they just vibe code everything.

I think to the extent they are making a speed v quality tradeoff, I think they are making the right call. 10x speed over quality any day for me. Reminds me of: "If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough of it." - Isaac Arthur

Everyone is making this tradeoff now. Surely nothing bad could come from it.

In the meantime I can’t even continue a Claude Code session I started on desktop on my phone. What’s the point of shipping a billion features of they are all half baked?

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by outlore »

captainbland wrote: post #13

I feel like this is a feature which improves the perceived confidence of the LLM but doesn't do much for correctness of other outputs, i.e. an exacerbation of the "confidently incorrect" criticism.

I suspect chain of thought while building the chart will improve the overall correctness of the answer

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by davesque »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #67
fixxation92 wrote: post #2

I find it absolutely mindblowing to witness the rate at which Anthropic can ship new features. Only a year ago I couldn't wait to see some sort of Github integration and then it appeared only a week later. Seriously impressive stuff.

Have you actually used their products? They are janky, full of bugs and barely work half the time. They write 100% of their code with Claude. Some of their engineers apparently burn over 100k worth of tokens per month. It’s not surprising they ship fast at all when the product is actually falling apart at the seams and they just vibe code everything.

The Claude Code TUI app is pretty solid. I use it heavily and I get great results from it. But with the mobile app, Claude Code remote is basically unusable (weird disconnect bugs) and Claude Code cloud has issues as well (UI hides approval confirmations; must reconnect to see them). So yeah, I imagine what you're saying is true. There are at least some major gaps in their QA process. It's ironically a pretty convincing case to keep humans in the loop. It's honestly shocking to me that those features were actually shipped in their current state. You run into the problems immediately.

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by quintu5 »

darepublic wrote: post #48

When I ask chatgpt to create a mermaid diagram for me it regularly will add new lines to certain labels that will break the parse. If you then feed the parse error back to it the second version is always correct And it seems to exactly know the problem. There are some other examples where it will almost always get it wrong the first time but right if nudged to correct itself. I wonder what the underlying cause is

This is one of the issues I’ve attempted to tackle with the Mermaid Studio plugin for IntelliJ.

It provides both syntax guides and syntax/semantic analysis as MCP Tools, so you can have an agent iteratively refine diagrams with good context for patterns like multi-line text and comments (LLMs love end-of-line comments, but Mermaid.js often doesn’t).

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by not_ai »

davesque wrote: post #75
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you actually used their products? They are janky, full of bugs and barely work half the time. They write 100% of their code with Claude. Some of their engineers apparently burn over 100k worth of tokens per month. It’s not surprising they ship fast at all when the product is actually falling apart at the seams and they just vibe code everything.

The Claude Code TUI app is pretty solid. I use it heavily and I get great results from it. But with the mobile app, Claude Code remote is basically unusable (weird disconnect bugs) and Claude Code cloud has issues as well (UI hides approval confirmations; must reconnect to see them). So yeah, I imagine what you're saying is true. There are at least some major gaps in their QA process. It's ironically a pretty convinc…

I have a very different experience. Claude code tui is the worst tui I have ever used. How is it possible that an inactive tui regularly eats 8gb of ram, has freezing issues and rendering issues?

If I wasn’t forced to use it I wouldn’t as there are better options available.

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by manquer »

kemayo wrote: post #52
captainbland wrote: post #13

I feel like this is a feature which improves the perceived confidence of the LLM but doesn't do much for correctness of other outputs, i.e. an exacerbation of the "confidently incorrect" criticism.

It's a mismatch with our intuition about how much effort things take. If there's humans involved, "I took this data and made a really fancy interactive chart" means that you put a lot more work into it, and you can probably somewhat assume that this means some more effort was also put into the accuracy of the data. But with the LLM it's not really very much more work to get the fancy chart. So the thing that was a si…

It is not limited to graphics, better packaged products, better dressed / good looking well spoken person and so on. Celebrity endorsements depend on this thesis.

There has always been a bias towards form over function.

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by vunderba »

Angostura wrote: post #60
vunderba wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A similar thing happened when Google started really pushing generating flowcharts as a use-case with Nano Banana. A slick presentation can distract people from the only thing that really matters - the accuracy of the underlying data.

As a slightly different tack, I’ve been using Copilot to generate flowcharts from some of the fiendishly complex (and badly written) standard operating procedures we have at work. People find them quite easy to check - easier than the raw document. My angle with teams is use these to check your processes. If the flow is wrong it’s either because the LLM has screwed up, or because the policy is wrong/badly written. It…

It’s interesting you mentioned that. One of the things I’ve started doing recently is throwing a large LLM such as codex-5.3 (highest level of reasoning) at some of the more complex systems we have to produce nicely formatted ASCII diagrams.

I still review each diagram afterward, but the great thing is that, unlike image-based diagrams, they remain fully text-readable and searchable. And you can even expose them as part of the knowledge base for the LLM to reference when needed going forward.

Re: Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

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Post by qingcharles »

stefan_ wrote: post #49
darepublic wrote: post #48

When I ask chatgpt to create a mermaid diagram for me it regularly will add new lines to certain labels that will break the parse. If you then feed the parse error back to it the second version is always correct And it seems to exactly know the problem. There are some other examples where it will almost always get it wrong the first time but right if nudged to correct itself. I wonder what the underlying cause is

Today I asked Claude to create me a squidward looking out the window meme and it started generating HTML & CSS to draw squidward in a style best described as "4 year old preschooler". Not quite it yet.

The issue for Claude is that Anthropic don't have an imagen that I know of, so the only tool available for the LLM to draw something is to start doing vector stuff in CSS, which is very hard for it (see the pelicans).

Gemini, ChatGPT or Grok would find this a lot easier as they could gen an image inline, although IP restrictions might bite you. Even Grok wants to lecture on IP these days, but at least it's fairly trivial to jailbreak.

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