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by MonkeyMalarky 1365 days ago
Class diagrams are way too fine grained to bother with and most IDEs have good enough tools for exploring large code bases. Service architecture diagrams and message sequence charts are super helpful. Especially for communicating with other teams and for making design proposals. I wouldn't be able to get traction on a new project without them, people really need pictures to see how something that doesn't exist yet will fit together with existing components.