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Show HN: Turn any workflow diagram into compilable, running and stateful code

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89 points yaronsc | 2 comments | 14 May 25 17:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source

Hi HN folks, I'm a co-creator of the Dapr CNCF project and co-founder of Diagrid. Today we announced a free-to-use web app that takes any form of workflow diagram (UML, BPMN, scribble in your favorite drawing tool or even on paper) and generates code that runs in any IDE and that can be deployed to Kubernetes and other container based systems, based on Dapr's durable execution workflow engine. This essentially allows you to run durable workflows in minutes and leaves out the guesswork for how to structure, code and optimize a code-first workflow app. I'm happy for you to give this a try and provide feedback!
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raydenvm ◴[18 May 25 09:02 UTC] No.44019989[source]▶
This reminds me of the UML/RUP era from the early 2000s.... Is that an attempt to revive or even resurrect UML diagrams and Rational Unified Process blending it with AI? I would bet it's all dead forever. I'm skeptical about diagram-driven development making a comeback. In my experience, developers today prefer more agile, code-first approaches because requirements change rapidly and maintaining diagram-code synchronization is an unbearable challenge.
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aqula ◴[18 May 25 09:40 UTC] No.44020154[source]▶
Code-first is kinda moving towards prompt-first. A diagram is just another way to prompt, so I can see this making a comeback, esp. with AI taking over more and more code.
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mentalgear ◴[18 May 25 10:04 UTC] No.44020239[source]▶
If it weren't for the ambiguity of prompts and nondeterministic nature of the model.
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1. genewitch ◴[18 May 25 12:14 UTC] No.44020769[source]▶
Set the seed.

Reply to post: "any"?

[0] I accept large checks for allowing setting seeds on-prem.

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2. nivertech ◴[18 May 25 17:05 UTC] No.44022759[source]▶
not setting a seed is a feature - not a bug, otherwise lots of people with similar prompts will generate an exactly the same source code