The Spatial Harness: Bringing Agents to the Canvas — Max Drake, tldraw

תקציר מקורי באנגליתOne of Max Drake's colleagues turned a whiteboard app into a window manager, then used it to play Pong with real desktop windows. Drake is a product engineer at tldraw, the London company behind the free infinite canvas app and, more importantly to him, the SDK powering other people's canvases, including Replit's. tldraw exists because people building canvas apps got stuck on the canvas itself, on selection and resizing and matrix math, and never reached their actual product. His talk is about the same trap one layer up. Coding agents work well because code is text in and text out, the medium they were trained on. Ask one to align something in two dimensions and it falls apart. Teaching agents to understand space takes real engineering. The progression starts with getting a model to read a