I get the most value out of diagrams that are fast to create during conversations, and largely ephemeral. A tool for sharing understanding, not a resource to be

I get the most value out of diagrams that are fast to create during conversations, and largely ephemeral. A tool for sharing understanding, not a resource to be shared widely for long periods of time. I'll often draw very similar diagrams multiple times for different audiences. So the emphasis is very much not on getting it right/perfect, but adapting it for the audience and the moment. Otherwise if you need something static, I don't know a way around it other than a tool that is capable of understanding a large distributed system - both deployment and codebase - and will auto-regenerate as the code and deployment system changes. In many organizations, the people skilled at diagramming aren't the people that are in the sprints making changes that will slowly break your diagrams over time.