Using Mermaid Diagrams to Learn a Codebase

One of the very useful ways I’ve put AI to work is for getting familiar with an existing (but new to me) project, or area of it. This can be done using a codebase-aware AI tool such as Cursor or Claude Code. These tools can scour the entire codebase or portion of it, depending on your prompt, and generate code in Mermaid’s Diagram Syntax. Read more…