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I believe that the creation of visualization apps to illustrate mathematical or scientific concepts is a particularly favorable use case for modern coding agents, as many of the downside risks attached to other LLM use cases are limited: Not mission-critical. As such apps are not authorative sources of truth and only used for secondary purposes, a small positive error rate in the output can be acceptable. Stand-alone. As the applets are not destined to be incorporated into a larger codebase or literature, the technical debt incurred by delegating all the coding to an LLM agent is bounded. End product is deterministic (and sandboxed). As the applets run on a deterministic language (Javascript), are sandboxed against file or internet access, and do not make any LLM calls at run-time, security and privacy concerns are minimal, and the applet can be maintained without continued premium LLM access or resource-intensive compute. Not replacing primary skills. While deskilling is the tradeoff…

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