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Breaking Up the Master Diagram(ilograph.com)
2 points by billyp-rva 1y ago|0 comments
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> My environmental concerns were already present using the lightest form of ai assistance (auto-completion) I can all but promise you IDE-powered code autocompletion has no measurable environmental impact.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> [T]here are ~basically~ no public benchmarks for security research... nothing that gets at the hard parts of application pentesting for LLMs, which are 1. Navigating a real repository of code too large to put in context, 2. Inferring a
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
Tangential question: does Medium automatically add emojis to article headings?
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> So, what is a test? To me, a test is a chunk of code... This obviously excludes manual testing, and the author doesn't explain why he is excluding them.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
If you saw a product in an ad, but aren't aware of any alternatives because you didn't see ads for them, that kind of limits your choices.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
The point is to post them on social media sites. Why they continue to allow "quote card" images and the like, I'm not sure.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> Native apps can do literally anything. That's just as much a downside as an upside. You're putting a lot of trust in a native app that you aren't putting in a website.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
Author here. It's a fair point and it would be worth revisiting, if not now then within the year. That said, I wouldn't expect things to change too drastically. TFA goes into details, but in short LLMs are already quite good at wh
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> Tesla already has that person’s money. It’s purely a performative action? Car companies care deeply about resale value, since that directly impacts new car value.
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Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate(ilograph.com)
214 points by billyp-rva 2y ago|68 comments
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Breaking Up the Master Diagram(ilograph.com)
1 points by billyp-rva 2y ago|0 comments
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
100% correct. The only ones which had both a repo and a diagram that I've consistently found were AWS sample architectures. Their diagrams are usually pretty lacking, though: https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts&#x2
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> For example, a conceptual diagram that complements the actual "as implemented" diagram. One is a big of a "here's what we were thinking" and the other is "here's how we translated that to actual archi
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
An important caveat is that C4 is narrowly tailored to monolithic software systems. When diagramming cloud or (micro-)service systems, its prescribed abstractions start to work against you. For example, there is no appropriate level for (e.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
Hi, author here. When I re-read this (it's from 2020) I had the same thought and wrote up an extended example of this just last month: https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/breaking-up-the-master-d...
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> This is a nice run through of some pitfalls. I'd love to see an accompanying "how to make a great architecture diagram", I think the purpose behind these diagrams often gets lost (or was bad to start with) and as a resul
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Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)(ilograph.com)
201 points by billyp-rva 2y ago|72 comments
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Breaking Up the Master Diagram(ilograph.com)
1 points by billyp-rva 2y ago|0 comments
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
Excited to take a look at this. I did attempt some diagramming with AI tools late last year (ChatGPT and Claud) . The results [0] were mixed: they were pretty good at whiteboarding but horrible at generating system diagrams from an existing
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Common Mistakes in Architecture Diagrams (2020)(ilograph.com)
4 points by billyp-rva 2y ago|0 comments
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
I don't like the comparison. > But. And here's where the comparison to cloud comes in; the details of that evolution seem a bit fuzzy. Maybe I have rose-tinted glasses on, but cloud computing was never "fuzzy" the way
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
Re: mental palaces and interactive diagrams, what is your take on Ilograph?
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
I'm tempted to screenshot and share this comment on Bluesky, but I have reservations.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> is a result of a directed campaign by ISPs to distract attention from them and onto these other companies. I've come to this conclusion because NN is effectively dead at the link level, not the ISP level. Try posting a link to the
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
It's a sad commentary that, because of how concentrated web traffic is today, net neutrality feels like an antiquated concern.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
> (1) DSLs work great sometimes. I'll take a stab at fleshing this out: DSLs work great when they have an IDE with autocomplete and a quick (or instant) feedback loop.
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
As mentioned in the blog, iterating on generating a diagram from a repo kind of defeats the purpose. The information is in the repo; if the LLM isn't going to analyze it properly, you might as well just tell it exactly what to diagram
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
I guess to get the discussion going: the diagrams look nice, but I think the erroneous and missed connections limit their usefulness. In this example, there is a connection from "Line manager" (line.h/.c) to "Memory Allo
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by billyp-rva 2y ago
Didn't get a response (expected), but I would caution everyone to keep expectations low. Generating system diagrams from code is extremely difficult, if not impossible, even with AI [0]. [0] https://www.ilograph.com/blo

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