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Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

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  1. ramoz · · focus · HN ↗
    I think many folks are underutilizing or underestimate the power of HTML.

    There's been a few of these things on the front page lately. Including false "whiteboards" that are DSL abstractions over things like React Flow...

    I've done quite a bit with Excalidraw MCP and the models had to deal with a lot of JSON data and estimating/computing with bounding box and pixel point numbers.

    But with HTML, the agents get the natural semantics/styling capabilities and basically zero abstraction. The recent models can draw exceptionally well any form of logical/conceptual/flow diagram.

    1. Marlinski · · focus · HN ↗
      I did exactly that <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lookwhatidid.xyz&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lookwhatidid.xyz&#x2F;
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