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How to get clear, custom diagrams from ChatGPT in minutes
Make professional diagrams with AI and a few simple prompts by following this demo.
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In this quick AI tech tip, Brent Laster highlights how you can use your favorite AI chatbot to turn complex concepts into clear, shareable diagrams. From outlining components to generating visual charts in formats like Mermaid and PlantUML, he shares practical ways to customize and refine the results so they are ready for presentations, documentation, or teaching. It is a fast, flexible approach that can save developers time while making technical ideas easier to understand.
Prompts used in the demo
- Outline the components of model context protocol
- Create a diagram to illustrate how these components relate to each other
- Create a diagram in Mermaid syntax to illustrate how these components relate to each other
- Your syntax wasn’t quite correct, but here’s the corrected syntax. Make each of the shapes in a solid color
- Generate the same diagram for PlantUML format
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