Your architecture diagram is probably lying to you
Your architecture diagram is probably lying to you Every architecture diagram I've inherited has been wrong in the same three ways: it's out of date, it's someone's mental model rather than the code, or an LLM drew it
Your architecture diagram is probably lying to you
Every architecture diagram I've inherited has been wrong in the same three ways:
it's out of date, it's someone's mental model rather than the code, or an LLM
drew it and invented half the arrows.
The fix isn't a better artist. It's to stop drawing and start parsing.
Guessing vs. proving
[Explain: an LLM produces the architecture it expects; a parser produces the
one that exists. Show a real ambiguous case and how guessing invents an edge.]
Every arrow should click through to a line of code
[Show the file:line provenance; the interactive HTML inspector.]
If it's deterministic, it can live in CI
[Show: self-healing README, PR review comment with blast radius, cycle gate.
Paste real command output from the repo fixtures.]
The AI angle: point your agent at the graph, not the repo
[Show the context command and the ~96%-smaller measured number; explain fewer
tokens + no hallucinated structure.]
Try it on your own code in 30 seconds
pip install py-code-visualizer && py-code-visualizer visualize .
[Link the playground and the per-stack guides.]
Try: https://haider1998.github.io/pyvisualizer/
Honest limits
[Python-only, static, dynamic dispatch caveats β link the comparison page.]
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