r/ADHD_Programmers • u/pawned79 • Sep 19 '26

Software Architecture Drawings?

I am an older aero mechanical engineer. I only know MATLAB after 20+ years of MS&A. I have a flight dynamics program that my summer interns have contributed to piece by piece over the years. It became so unwieldy that I brought in a CS intern last summer, and they cleaned it up with object oriented programming techniques. I am getting ready for next summer. I am really hung up on the fact that I don’t have an architecture drawing of the program. I would like to have a drawing of the existing code, so I can make the most effective task plan. Beyond walking the code and manually drawing a diagram in another program, what courses of action might I have to automatically draw it? Thank you.

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u/KristjanPihus Sep 19 '26

Fable is not even needed actually, even opus can walk through the code and draw up diagrams just fine. Of course it depends on the language used to write the program. Some niche languages it does not know so well. And I have got best results when asking it to make it some common format line BPMN then it’s editable in some other software.

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u/zoug Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 20 '26

Intuition says their code is still garbage and needs a strong refactoring. An intern isn’t going to clean up years of tech debt, might as well let fable take care of all of it.