From Years to Hours

This is a personal story about infrastructure diagramming and how modern tooling has compressed what used to be a multi-year skill-building exercise into something achievable in hours. The author has genuine experience here — they have been doing this work since 2018 — so the before-and-after framing is grounded rather than hype. The post is honest about the learning curve that existed before and is reasonably concrete about what changed. Where it falls short is in the detail of what tools, workflows, or prompting approaches actually made the difference: the story lands, but the reproducible takeaway is fuzzy. It reads like the opening chapter of a tutorial series that has not been written yet. Worth a skim if infrastructure-as-diagrams is a real pain point in your current project. -> Best for: technical PM or indie hacker managing cloud infrastructure who wants validation that the tooling gap is closing.