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Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
An exploration of how well AI generates system architecture diagrams
While not pretty, the diagram contains all the critical elements of a simple 3-tiered AWS serverless system: S3 for file storage, a DynamoDB database, Lambda for compute, and API Gateway for presentation. ChatGPT helpfully replied that Mermaid doesn’t natively support icons in nodes and suggested some alternative tools. Diagrams of real-life systems serve as visual documentation; they are helpful for onboarding, knowledge refreshment, alignment, and incident response.
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