Diagrams as Code: Stop Wasting Time. Use Mermaid.
The persistence of manually drawn diagrams in technical documentation is an inefficiency bordering on the absurd. We operate in environments demanding precision, version control, and collaboration, yet many still resort to clicking, dragging, and aligning shapes in graphical editors like digital finger-painters. The resulting artifacts – often opaque binary files – clutter repositories, resist meaningful diffing, and become instantly outdated. This is not a complex problem. It has a straightforward, logical solution.