LLMs are bad at drawing diagrams. Or are they?

1 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by higeorge13
(amendary.com)

4 Comments

nielsbot

4 hours ago

FTA:

> After that, Graphviz calculates the layout and renders SVG and PNG

I was going to ask: why not GraphViz?

4d4m

5 hours ago

They are amazing at flowcharts, because Mermaid is text based

higeorge13

an hour ago

Yeah, Mermaid is a good example of the same idea. LLMs are much better at describing a diagram in a text format than actually drawing one.

The interesting part for me was separating the semantic structure from the layout completely.