TLDR; Maybe. Longer answer: Capitalism sucks, hard. It’s the bad card we’ve been dealt, for-profit companies will always be looking to reduce costs and increase profits. If this means they can reduce expenses by automating an activity - they will (eventually). To look at this another way - if the output of your job is repeatable and not creative - one could argue that (other than providing you income), it might also not be the best use of your time. ...
The two tools I use with AI / LLMs for generating diagrams are Mermaid and Excalidraw. Mermaid (or MermaidJS) is a popular diagramming library and format supported by many tools and is often rendered inside markdown (e.g. in a readme.md). Excalidraw is an excellent, free and open source diagramming and visualisation tool. I also often make use of a third party Obsidian plugin for Excalidraw. Excalidraw It has a ‘generate diagram with AI’ feature which if you’re using the excalidraw.com online editor offers a few free generations each day (I think this uses a low-end OpenAI model). If you’re running Excalidraw locally or by using the brilliant Obsidian plugin - you can provide any OpenAI compatible API endpoint and model for AI generations. Behind the scenes Excalidraw AI generates and then renders MermaidJS. ...
Ingest is a tool I’ve written to make my life easier when preparing content for LLMs. It parses directories of plain text files, such as source code, documentation etc… into a single markdown file suitable for ingestion by AI/LLMs. Ingest can also estimate vRAM requirements for a given model, quantisation and context length: Features Traverse directory structures and generate a tree view Include/exclude files based on glob patterns Estimate vRAM requirements and check model compatibility using another package I’ve created called quantest Parse output directly to LLMs such as Ollama or any OpenAI compatible API for processing Generate and include git diffs and logs Count approximate tokens for LLM compatibility Customisable output templates Copy output to clipboard (when available) Export to file or print to console Optional JSON output Ingest Intro (“Podcast” Episode): ...