AI Agents and "Visual Illusions" in PPTX

Sergei Bulaev tested 11 AI agents on their ability to create presentations, discovering that many merely mimic structure instead of using native objects.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-07-22Updated 2026-07-22

2026-07-22 Coding Anthropic

🛠 AI Agents and "Visual Illusions" in PPTX

Sergei Bulaev tested 11 AI agents for Claude Code on creating PPTX presentations. Most tools create "visual illusions," drawing tables as a set of disconnected text blocks and shapes instead of using native OOXML objects.

🌍 The research highlights the problem of "structural hallucinations" in agentic processes: agents need to follow format specifications to ensure editability.

👤 Choose tools that work with native objects (e.g., anthropics/skills) to avoid receiving a collection of dozens of disconnected shapes instead of actual tables.

Source 1: https://www.bulaev.net/p/i-had-11-ai-subagents-test-every

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