61 points ttd | 1 comments | 12 Mar 25 14:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.898s | source

I've been working on a diagramming tool [1] and wanted to get some thoughts from people who regularly make architecture and other technical diagrams. I know my own experiences but I'm quite curious to hear others.

I'm guessing for a lot of people draw.io and Excalidraw are probably the go-to. If you use draw.io (or something else), what do you like about it, or what do you wish was better?

[1] - https://app.vexlio.com/ for the curious

1. rthnbgrredf ◴[12 Mar 25 18:55 UTC] No.43346508[source]▶

>>43343473 (OP) #

I instruct sonnet-3.7-thinking in Cursor Agent mode to draw latex tikz diagrams for me and that works iteratively quite well.

Draw a circle, add a label to the circle, draw a box right to it, draw an arrow from the circle to the box, and so on.

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