Nope, AI Didn't Do a Great Job on That Pelican—but at Least I Can See It Trying

Markdown has become a convenient working format for AI, but it is missing a review layer. MarkLeft keeps Markdown as the editable source, renders it as a document, stores comments inside it, and asks AI to append suggestions instead of silently rewriting the original. I asked AI to write a little story about LLMs and a pelican on a bicycle. I also asked it to draw the pelican as an SVG. This is what I got: The head is strange. The legs do not convincingly reach opposite pedals. And "sporty" is not the first word that comes to mind. The result is not the interesting part. The iteration is. I can tell an AI to fix the image. It will happily return a new SVG. But the moment it does, the old version disappears from view. I can inspect a Git diff, but that only tells me which path coordinates changed. It does not help me answer the question I actually care about: Did the new image address what I meant? That is the problem MarkLeft is trying to solve. The problem​ There is a lively argument…