ijustlurk

Nice one. Mermaid validation is a huge issue given how mermaid.js is architected.

I built a mermaid generation harness last year and even the best model at it (Claude Sonnet 3.7 at the time; 4o was okay, Gemini struggled) only produced valid mermaid ~95% of the time. That failure rate adds up quickly. Had to detect errors client-side and trigger retries to keep server load reasonable.

Having a lightweight parser with auto-fix like this back then would have simplified the flow quite a bit.

Agreed, nice idea in theory. But as a codebase owner I’d rather build tailored markdown files with a CLI agent to publish as my docs. And as a codebase consumer I probably only care about a codebase if I’m modifying or running it, which means a CLI agent makes the most sense and I can ask questions/generate .md files as we go.

Spotify's Soundtrap claims to have live collaboration, haven't tested it though so I don't know if it's actually realtime or just a step in that direction.

Garmin has an active/outdoorsy slant but out of the big smartwatch players they seem to fill that hole best, a good amount of their models emphasize button navigation and the touchscreen is optional.

It appears they’ve already done exactly that within their community

Are there any science books (pop or not) you could recommend that don’t into this pattern?