HTML is All You Need (for Agents to Make Graphics)
summary
Claim: agents fail at canvas tools but succeed when given structure. Models like Claude and ChatGPT produce garbage SVGs on Simon Willison’s pelican riding a bicycle test, but when prompted to output SVG or full HTML the medium changes the result. HTML + CSS becomes the actual tooling used to make slides, docs, and videos; real board decks and videos render successfully, and the workflow drops a 10‑hour fiddling job to about 25 minutes. A deployed product example is Nori Sessions, which builds decks end‑to‑end.
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