My front end to mermaid is usually claude. I can’t count how many times trying to convey a complicated idea (last week, a one time use token in a 3 party where my backend can’t talk to the client) has been made simple to explain with a quick diagram claude made.
I am a paid mermaid account holder but claude is still my first front end, because it’s the tool I’m in most of the time anyway. What I’m excited for in the GUI is I can take that quick diagram and add the styling, colors, and hopefully move some of the boxes around such that the arrows are better than the auto layout drops them.
From reading the blog post, the first thing I’d like which is changing the visual colors and styling of individual boxes in the diagram might be missed. I find that the most time consuming thing to do manually with the code, I would love to see rich tools there.
I just tried this last week for the first time. I asked claude to create a syntax diagram for a toy grammar. The resulting mermaid source had a syntax error (unescaped special character). Despite having its own mermaid widget thingie, I couldn't compel claude to fix its own code.
I haven’t had issues with it enough to notice, but I do tolerate it making code mistakes as just part of the deal now. I fix the little errors (claude said it made a deps.edn file for a clojure project but it’s actually lien format) as just part of the deal. I might not have just papered over the issues in my brain
I am a paid mermaid account holder but claude is still my first front end, because it’s the tool I’m in most of the time anyway. What I’m excited for in the GUI is I can take that quick diagram and add the styling, colors, and hopefully move some of the boxes around such that the arrows are better than the auto layout drops them.
From reading the blog post, the first thing I’d like which is changing the visual colors and styling of individual boxes in the diagram might be missed. I find that the most time consuming thing to do manually with the code, I would love to see rich tools there.