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AI Coding Is Breaking Them. Here’s What We’re Doing About It. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # C4 Models Are Brilliant. AI Coding Is Breaking Them. Here’s What We’re Doing About It. **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI coding tools like Cursor and Copilot are accelerating development so fast that C4 architecture diagrams become stale within weeks, creating a dangerous gap between documentation and reality. The author argues modern architecture tooling needs four capabilities: automatic code-to-diagram sync, time-dimension support (view diagrams at any git tag), branch-aware diagrams, and visual architectural diffs for PRs. To address this, the author's company uxxu is building codeToC4, a tool that connects to Git repositories and auto-generates up-to-date C4 diagrams, with support for historical views and architectural diffs. The post also argues that architectural thinking — not code writing — will be the highest-leverage developer skill in the AI era. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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