YMMV, but the value I get from producing a diagram is derived from the thinking. Thinking about what I'm trying to draw leads to understanding about where my/my team's knowledge is poorer, what assumptions we're making, etc.
Yeah I tend to make my diagrams either as I go, as exploration, or after I'm done figuring things out as a summarizing artifact (and agents are great at using Mermaid to do that second one).
I don't remember who said it, but someone mentioned that mathematics papers don't read well because the models don't know which parts to emphasize and which parts to gloss over. I would imagine similar tendencies here.
I’ve been trying to find the best practice to connect a person’s existing ChatGPT/Codex / Claude accounts so they can be used in an app for the agent in the app.<p>Any advice? Everything seems clunky, even the best MCP efforts
I've had a fairly thorough exploration of how I can give my agent a whiteboard so we can work on architectures together. To my surprise, current solutions (including Excalidraw) were not good enough and didn't deliver what I wanted. I ended up finding Mermaid to be the most agent-friendly medium and coded an Obsidian plugin for it. It works okay; we can work on the same doc while I bring my own AI agent, and we can brainstorm together.
<a href="https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/mermaid-relay" rel="nofollow">https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/mermaid-relay</a>
Posted this somewhere else aswell but I've had good success with <a href="https://whiteboard-mcp.com" rel="nofollow">https://whiteboard-mcp.com</a> - it seems to work better than other free alternatives for things like architecture diagram creation
video <a href="https://lnkd.in/p/ez4EZede">https://lnkd.in/p/ez4EZede</a>
tldraw has a lot of programmatic access I have not compared it to excalidraw but there is still no equivalence between the model capabilities to build amazingly detailed infographics and diagraming tool use which is a gap I hope will narrow