BONSAI: A Mixed-Initiative Workspace for Human-AI Co-Development of Visual Analytics Applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19247v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:57:49 GMT
• Title: BONSAI: A Mixed-Initiative Workspace for Human-AI Co-Development of Visual Analytics Applications
• Abstract summary: BONSAI is a mixed-initiative workspace for the multi-agent co-development of Visual Analytics applications.<n>This paper contributes a conceptual workflow, a scalable architecture, and an integrated system that successfully balances AI's generative speed with the structural rigor required for complex VA development.
• Score: 13.657176068149417
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Developing Visual Analytics (VA) applications requires integrating complex machine learning models with expressive interactive interfaces. Developers face a stark trade-off: building tightly-coupled monoliths plagued by fragile interdependencies, or relying on restrictive, simplistic frameworks. Meanwhile, unconstrained, single-shot AI code generation promises speed but yields unstructured, unauditable chaos. The core challenge is combining the control and expressiveness of custom development with the efficiency of AI generation under strict constraints. To address this, we introduce BONSAI, a mixed-initiative workspace for the multi-agent co-development of VA applications. BONSAI utilizes a modular four-layer architecture (hardware, services, orchestration, application) that allows human and AI developers to independently contribute reusable components. The workspace incorporates this architecture into a structured four-phase development process (plan, design, monitor, and review), ensuring distributed agency and full provenance, where all human and AI contributions are structurally bounded and tracked. We evaluate BONSAI through case studies demonstrating the efficient creation of novel tools and the rapid reconstruction of complex VA applications directly from research paper descriptions. Ultimately, this paper contributes a conceptual workflow, a scalable architecture, and an integrated system that successfully balances AI's generative speed with the structural rigor required for complex VA development.

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