How I Built an AI to Draw My Architecture Diagrams (Because My Wiki Kept Dying)
Source: Dev.to
The Paradox of Documentation Drift 🤖
A few months ago I hit a wall. Using LLMs, I was shipping code faster than ever—features were flying out the door. But three weeks later, when I had to debug a module I wrote, I had the code but lost the context.
I realized I was suffering from the silent killer of velocity: Documentation Drift. The code evolves, but the map stays static.
I tried the “good developer” rituals—comments, Confluence updates, and manually drawing diagrams in Miro. The moment I merged a new PR, the diagrams were dead.
The Validation (We Need Maps, Not Books) 🧠
Before writing a single line to solve this, I asked Reddit: “Why is keeping docs in sync so painfully hard?”
The answers confirmed my thesis:
- The problem isn’t laziness.
- It’s architecture.
- “Separate docs get stale and are often worse than useless.”
Bottom line: We need living maps, not static books.
The Solution: Building MIVNA 🛠️
I decided documentation must be part of the CI/CD pipeline, not an afterthought. I built MIVNA to live where developers live: GitHub.
The Result: Zero Drift, Zero Shadowing 📉
- Visual First: Automatically generates high‑level architecture diagrams.
- Legacy Safe: Instantly map a scary legacy module without needing a senior dev to “shadow” you for days.
- Always Sync: If the code changes, the diagram changes. Period.
I Need Your Help (Private Beta) 🧪
I’m opening a private beta for engineering teams tired of “Wiki Rot.” I’m not looking for customers; I’m looking for builders to break it and tell me what sucks.
Questions:
- Does MIVNA fit your workflow?
- Do you prefer the diagrams in the PR or a centralized dashboard?
🔗 Check it out here: https://mivna-diagrams.lovable.app/
Let me know your thoughts in the comments!