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Comment by raincole

12 days ago

LLMs nowadays can understand png diagrams too.

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elxr  12 days ago

But not all CLIs handle pngs as easily as a text diagram. Syncing images is also multiple times slower.

png diagrams should never be the default.

trcf23  12 days ago

They can’t update it though. In docs it makes sense to use that as a basis and have the Llm update it when needed

  • satvikpendem  12 days ago

    Mermaid diagrams are even better because you don't waste characters on the visual representation but rather the relationships between them. It's the difference between

        graph TD
            User -->|Enters Credentials| Frontend[React App]
            Frontend -->|POST /auth| API[NodeJS Service]
            API -->|Query| DB[(PostgreSQL)]
            API --x|Invalid| Frontend
            DB -->|User Object| API
            API -->|JWT| Frontend

    and

        +-------+           +-------------+           +---------+
    |  User |           | React App   |           | NodeJS  |
    +-------+           +-------------+           +---------+
        |                      |                       |
        |  Enters Creds        |       POST /auth      |
        |--------------------->|---------------------->|
        |                      |                       |
        |      Invalid         |    <-- [X] Error -----|
        |<---------------------|                       |
        |                      |       Query DB        |
        |                      |---------------------->| [ DB ]

    Plus while an LLM can understand relationships via pure ASCII or an image, it's just easier to give it the relationship data directly.

    • trcf23  12 days ago

      But the point is to have something easy to read both for humans and LLM, no?

      It’s harder to read mermaid in a terminal or a markdown file…

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