Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents(microsoft.github.io)
306 points by chenglong-hn 18 hours ago | 113 comments
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HN Discussion:
  • Skepticism about how this differs from existing tools like Vega, Seaborn, or Graphviz
  • Criticism of the 'AI agents' marketing framing on what is essentially a chart DSL
  • Enthusiasm for the emerging pattern of deterministic layers/IR paired with LLMs
  • Disagreement with the premise that LLMs struggle with verbose/low-level chart specs
  • Concern that JSON-based syntax isn't truly a human-consumable language