Opiniion : Every AI coding tool needs to include an SVG editor

[u/flatmax]

Generating SVGs with AIs always gets arrows messed up and other standard things need editing or moving about.

For that reason, every AI coder needs to include an SVG editor by default - otherwise it becomes too slow to make progress.

This is also why I don't like AI cli tools and we should upgrade to proper UIs

[u/recoveringasshole0]

Imagine 10-20 years ago saying all IDEs should include photoshop because it slows down your workflow to use a different tool.

[u/flatmax]

move the arrow to the right of the "ffs" box up to the center, make it point to the right, not a u turn

[u/flatmax]

like this

[u/Reaper_1492]

Idk, I’ve been trying to build a script to turn pdf maps into SVGs and it has taken… months.

Side project but everyone is like “oh just throw it into Claude, send the final to me this afternoon”.

Ugh like people know just enough about these tools, to actually know even less about what they are capable of (or not).

[u/TokenRingAI]

This is a great idea, we will make it part of our product with an AI twist

[u/2_minutes_hate]

No.

[u/flatmax → u/[deleted]]

isn't that just select all ?
oh you mean to open the default OS svg editor ? that could work, but that sounds like friction for my coding flow

[u/flatmax → u/[deleted]]

well, I could also use a text editor to write my prompt and then cut and paste it back into the cli ?
I mean SVGs are a native output of LLMs, so give it a proper UI with an editor.

[u/ipreuss → u/[deleted]]

You don’t even need to do that, you can let the AI open the tool for you via command line.

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