AI agents made figure generation free. They did not make figure judgment free. An agent will render a fatally flawed analysis at publication quality, without hesitation and without a warning.
Judge it blind. Then see the code. Then watch your own answer change.
One is evidence, one is circular, one is noise. Pick the real one. Chance is 33%.
If you can’t recover the question from the figure, it wasn’t answering one.
Where the models fail, and where they cry wolf.
378 graded verdicts · haiku, opus, sonnet · three arms: figure alone → figure + methods caption → figure + caption + prompt + code.