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Annotating for agents

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The gap between seeing and describing.

16 January, 2026 AI coding tools have gotten increasingly good at understanding visual feedback. Some take an all-in-one approach: v0, Lovable, Bolt, and Cursor's visual editor let you select elements directly and iterate on what you see. Others, like Claude Code, are more flexible but rely on screenshots and descriptions. There's often a tradeoff: point at elements but stay locked in, or use any tool but describe everything in text. This problem becomes especially obvious when working on animations and interactions, which is what got me thinking about how to give better visual feedback to…

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