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If you saw a product in an ad, but aren't aware of any alternatives because you didn't see ads for them, that kind of limits your choices.

The point is to post them on social media sites. Why they continue to allow "quote card" images and the like, I'm not sure.

> Native apps can do literally anything. That's just as much a downside as an upside. You're putting a lot of trust in a native app that you aren't putting in a website.

Author here. It's a fair point and it would be worth revisiting, if not now then within the year. That said, I wouldn't expect things to change too drastically. TFA goes into details, but in…

> Tesla already has that person’s money. It’s purely a performative action? Car companies care deeply about resale value, since that directly impacts new car value.

100% correct. The only ones which had both a repo and a diagram that I've consistently found were AWS sample architectures. Their diagrams are usually pretty lacking, though: https://w…

> For example, a conceptual diagram that complements the actual "as implemented" diagram. One is a big of a "here's what we were thinking" and the other is "here'…

An important caveat is that C4 is narrowly tailored to monolithic software systems. When diagramming cloud or (micro-)service systems, its prescribed abstractions start to work against you. For exampl…

Hi, author here. When I re-read this (it's from 2020) I had the same thought and wrote up an extended example of this just last month: https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts…

> This is a nice run through of some pitfalls. I'd love to see an accompanying "how to make a great architecture diagram", I think the purpose behind these diagrams often gets lost (…

Excited to take a look at this. I did attempt some diagramming with AI tools late last year (ChatGPT and Claud) . The results [0] were mixed: they were pretty good at whiteboarding but horrible at gen…

I don't like the comparison. > But. And here's where the comparison to cloud comes in; the details of that evolution seem a bit fuzzy. Maybe I have rose-tinted glasses on, but cloud compu…

Re: mental palaces and interactive diagrams, what is your take on Ilograph?

I'm tempted to screenshot and share this comment on Bluesky, but I have reservations.

> is a result of a directed campaign by ISPs to distract attention from them and onto these other companies. I've come to this conclusion because NN is effectively dead at the link level, not …

It's a sad commentary that, because of how concentrated web traffic is today, net neutrality feels like an antiquated concern.

> (1) DSLs work great sometimes. I'll take a stab at fleshing this out: DSLs work great when they have an IDE with autocomplete and a quick (or instant) feedback loop.

As mentioned in the blog, iterating on generating a diagram from a repo kind of defeats the purpose. The information is in the repo; if the LLM isn't going to analyze it properly, you might as we…

I guess to get the discussion going: the diagrams look nice, but I think the erroneous and missed connections limit their usefulness. In this example, there is a connection from "Line manager&quo…

Didn't get a response (expected), but I would caution everyone to keep expectations low. Generating system diagrams from code is extremely difficult, if not impossible, even with AI [0]. [0] htt…

Does it matter? If LLMs aren't that, whatever it is, then we should use a different word. Finders keepers.

> It doesn't need to be general intelligence or perfectly map to human intelligence. > All it needs to be is useful. Computers were already useful. The only definition we have for "int…