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AI agents can make data visualizations now. Ask Manus, Claude, or ChatGPT to chart a dataset and you'll get something back in seconds. The output is almost always... fine. Functional. Generic. The kind of chart that communicates data but doesn't communicate insight. In this post, I experimented with how to make AI agents visualize data better.

In November 2025, AI coding tools went from “halting and clumsy” to surprisingly capable. Suddenly they could produce whole, working apps from minimal instruction, in ways they simply couldn't before.

This experiment makes that shift visible. We gave 22 AI models the same exact prompt to build a working analog clock from scratch, then ran each model five times independently.