Why Claude and ChatGPT Struggle with Research Graphics (And What Makes Antigravity Prompts Work)
Stack Overflow has accumulated 72,879 questions tagged matplotlib and another 57,712 tagged ggplot2. Reddit's r/dataisbeautiful (21 million subscribers) fields daily requests for help positioning legends, adjusting axis labels, and fixing overlapping annotations. The collective effort spent on research graphics is staggering, and much of it addresses the same fundamental problem: code can't see what it produces.
When we use Claude to generate Python visualizations, we often spend hours fighting
Dec 2025
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Methodology