I have found LLMs to be very good at the kind of code -> diagram task presented here. Fire up superwhisper[1] and stream-of-consciousness away about why you want the diagram, which bits are important, who the audience is, and so on. Then iterate a few times. Works brilliantly for even very complex things, including 5000 line CDK files.
It's disingenuous to conclude that AI is no good at diagramming after using an impotent prompt AND refusing to iterate with it. A human would do no better with the same instructions, LLMs aren't magic.
Fair point. What the author does mention is that if you have to do a lot of work getting proper results out of AI (and potentially contend with hallucinations), you may as well do the actual work yourself and be more confident about the end result.
That being said, I think part of the potential is repeatability. Once you've done the work of property prompting for the desired result, you can often save the adjusted prompts (or a variation of it) for later use, giving you a flying start on subsequent occasions.
It's disingenuous to conclude that AI is no good at diagramming after using an impotent prompt AND refusing to iterate with it. A human would do no better with the same instructions, LLMs aren't magic.
This is the same as my previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524125
[1] https://superwhisper.com/