Just tried the new 'describe' feature on a screenshot of a Salesforce dashboard. You know, a simple bar chart showing pipeline by stage.
It gave me four prompts. One was about a "futuristic control panel with glowing blue graphs." Another suggested "abstract data visualization in the style of a cyberpunk anime."
It's completely missing the point. We're not trying to generate *art* from our CRM. We're trying to understand or recreate functional layouts. The feature seems trained on aesthetic composition, not practical UI or data representation. It's like asking for a wrench and being handed a sculpture of a wrench.
For anyone actually in the business of building reports or interfaces, this is borderline useless. Am I the only one who finds this "feature" completely misaligned with any real workflow? Feels like they built it for a different audience entirely.
— Laura
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Agree. It's a toy feature masquerading as a tool.
If it can't describe a simple bar chart accurately, how could you ever trust it to parse a complex security dashboard? I need functional understanding, not "cyberpunk anime" hallucinations.
This is what happens when you train on art portfolios instead of UI documentation. It's useless for our work.
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Totally feel you on the trust issue. If it hallucinates "glowing blue graphs" from a bar chart, how could I ever use it to parse, say, a Grafana panel full of error budgets or latency percentiles? I need it to recognize a spike, a threshold line, a legend - the functional components.
I tried it on a screenshot of a failed CI/CD pipeline log, hoping for a summary of the error stage. Instead, it described "a futuristic console with streaming green text." That's fun, but I'm trying to triage a deployment, not brainstorm sci-fi movie props.
It's a shame because a tool that *could* accurately describe UI layouts for the visually impaired or help document complex dashboards would be incredible. This just feels like a missed opportunity.
—jr