Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate

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> Instead of a detailed prompt, we ask ChatGPT to diagram a source repository we upload (it could not analyze the link directly). In theory, all the information needed to diagram the system thoroughly is in the repo.

AI noob here. Are there any AIs that can now do this ? Directly access a repo online, answer questions about it, diagram it, maybe whip up some test cases for it ?

I'm curious if o1-preview would have performed better for creating mermaid diagrams.

Author here.

I don't expect you'd see a difference. For the simple case of iterating on a diagram you describe to ChatGPT, 4o is perfectly fine as-is. I can't see how you'd meaningfully improve on it.

However, for the advanced case of generating a diagram from a repo, AI isn't even close. You'd need practically unthinkable improvement for it to be useable.

The consequence, unfortunately, is incremental gains won't help in either case.

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