alt Hacker News> requiring them to explicitly make visual decisions that are supposed to be handled by a good compiler
Isnt graphviz there for the same reason?
Edit: I see it is using JSON as the declaration language, I am OK with llms being "good at json" but a syntax also consumable by humans it is not!
In fact, Json as a common language for human in visualization has been around for a while! The benefit of declarative grammar is that users can effective manipulate specs through UI (drag and drop, clicks).
Btw, Flint is intentionally designed to allow agent skip low-level params like scale, axe, zero, step size etc (which are extremely crucial for "GOOD-looking") and they are dynamically optimized by the compiler. So AI agents can have a easier time.