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I use agents more and more for generating and refining plots, and its difficult for me to see the difference between matplotlib, seaborn, and plotnine, when used in this way. Agentic coding seems especially well suited to working with scientific figures, and that performance seems more or less agnostic to the underlying framework used (though they seem to prefer matplotlib, given the amount of training data for using that tool). I'm totally open to the idea that better libraries will lead to better outcomes from agents, but I haven't seen that with plotting yet.


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