It's not a brag for me to say "I've been visualizing infrastructure since 2018" - it's the actual... Tagged with ai, stripe, cli, agents.

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A developer with a background in infrastructure visualization tools (Stackery, AWS Infrastructure Composer) shares how they built a Stripe Projects visualizer in a single afternoon. The tool reads a project's state file, analyzes provider environment variable usage, and generates an architecture diagram showing how provisioned services connect. The author reflects on how AI-assisted development has compressed what once took teams of engineers years to build into hours of solo work, describing the shift as both exciting and somewhat terrifying for the future of software employment.

From Years to Hours