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I've been using ChatGPT to generate PlantUML diagrams with great success. If the diagram doesn't look right, it means I haven't been able to describe the solution well enough in the prompt. Repeating the description in the prompt until I get it right means that I can can practice explaining the solution in a way that helps me describe the solution to humans too.



> I can can practice explaining the solution in a way that helps me describe the solution to humans too.

That too. Also had some interesting results asking it to rephrase, structure and improve whatever description I’ve written for the process I’m documenting.

Especially when my description felt more like some rambling than some clear and precise unambiguous explanation.

Also a great way to generate, and more importantly keep up to date, short and concise overviews, for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.




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