AI still sucks at rendering stock charts (opens in new tab)

Some may be surprised to learn that free version of commercial AI programs are unable to plot the relative performance of a list of stock symbols over some specified time frame. For example, Claude, OpenAi, and Gemini all fail at the following prompt, “Generate a chart year to date comparing the relative performance of MSTR, QQQ, COIN, IBIT, and QQQ,” either plotting the wrong chart or not plotting anything at all.