AI-Generated Architecture Diagrams

If you've ever built architecture diagrams, you know how time-consuming it can be.
I use drawio and sometimes I spend hours aligning elements to make the picture compact, clear and not overloaded with elements and connections between them (hello to my perfectionism).

The great news is that AI now can help with this task also using Drawio MCP. Initially I was quite skeptical. Anyone who has tried to generate a diagram by architecture description will understand me 🙂.

Surprisingly, the result is good. Not perfect, but really good.

I tested it with creating new diagrams and modifying existing ones according to some template. New diagrams are a bit clumsy, so you need to clean them up. Modification according to the template shows better results, it aligned around 10 different diagrams to the same template within minutes.

Of course as with any AI agent task you need to tune the output, explain mistakes and save lessons learnt to the memory. But finally I got desired result much faster then doing that on my own.

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