A researcher spent 700M tokens having an AI build the TikZ editor LaTeX users always wanted (tikz.dev)
TikZ Editor lets you draw figures visually and outputs TikZ/LaTeX code, open source and on the web. The most-praised use isn't drawing from scratch — it's editing old TikZ without turning the source into generated soup.
Maker DominikPeters says it took 700M tokens since February via a ChatGPT subscription. A LaTeX user in the thread flagged the catch: every node lands at absolute coordinates, which is rarely how good TikZ is written.
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