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They're all crossed wires.

Friendly reminder that computers are for computing, not advice.

> and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable

In many professions, $5000 for tools is almost nothing.

> They are also experimenting with synthetic data, but this approach has its limitations.

I was really looking forward to using "synthetic data" euphemistically during debates.

You can still sign and notarize your .dmg without distributing it via the app store. Users who download from your website won't see the "unknown developer" warning as long as you do that.

Your second point about your target market is much more salient. Tough call.

What benefit do you hope to realize from distributing via the App Store? They aren't going to handle payments for you. They won't market your app for you.

Author here.

I don't expect you'd see a difference. For the simple case of iterating on a diagram you describe to ChatGPT, 4o is perfectly fine as-is. I can't see how you'd meaningfully improve on it.

However, for the advanced case of generating a diagram from a repo, AI isn't even close. You'd need practically unthinkable improvement for it to be useable.

The consequence, unfortunately, is incremental gains won't help in either case.

Yeah, just about every diagram you see online commits these sins. Probably because companies that create detailed diagrams don't make them public. What's left is mostly diagrams by tech companies (e.g. cloud providers) created specifically to promote the technologies themselves.

You can do it, certainly, but it is overkill. It also limits your potential editors to people who know Python and are willing to install it on their machine. In contrast to Python (or other programming languages), a language like YAML or JSON can be learned in minutes by just about anyone.

> It will be saved as web_service.png on your working directory.

Nice and simple, but unfortunately you lose all accessibility with a .png diagram. Specifically, they're impenetrable to screen readers.

I'm biased, but I think it's a bad decision. Programming languages are for writing, well, programs. Programs execute, accept input, have state, and all manner of other things that just don't apply to diagrams. Diagramming in a programming language is just weird.

Is the name for this kind SEO practice, where a company creates a new domain for a strictly "informational" page like this?