Diagram Design: the Developer Ecosystem Has Useful Exceptions
October 20, 2026
Ask a coding agent to produce an architecture diagram and the default output is a collection of rounded boxes connected by arrows. Every node the same size, every connection the same weight, no hierarchy, no focal point—nothing a reader could not have inferred from a well-organized table. Diagram Design is a skill built around the premise that output quality is a design problem, not a rendering one.
