I have been using PlantUML a lot. For me the effort of drawing a diagram in an external tool and then exporting it seems like such a waste compared to adding source code that compiles into the diagram I need.
As a nice bonus, GPT-4 is pretty good at generating valid PlantUML. I have given descriptions of the diagram I want and gotten results that have gone into docs unchanged.
Yep, GPT is nice for speeding up the process. I've gotten in the habit of actually speaking out loud the desired flow of events in a system and transcribing it, and then turning that text into sequence diagrams with GPT4.
As a nice bonus, GPT-4 is pretty good at generating valid PlantUML. I have given descriptions of the diagram I want and gotten results that have gone into docs unchanged.