How I Built an AI to Draw My Architecture Diagrams (Because My Wiki Kept Dying)

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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 I had 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. But 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 went to Reddit and asked the hivemind: "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."

The truth is: 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 📉
This is MIVNA. It kills manual documentation.

Visual First: Automatically generates high-level architecture diagrams.

Legacy Safe: Instantly map that scary legacy module without needing a Senior Dev to "shadow" you for 3 days.

Always Sync: If the code changes, the diagram changes. Period.

I Need Your Help (Private Beta) 🧪

I’m opening the Private Beta for engineering teams who are tired of "Wiki Rot." I’m not looking for customers; I’m looking for builders to break it and tell me what sucks.

Question: 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!

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