Boggles my mind that this is actually a thing that still needs to be solved. Just remote into your computer (I prefer TeamViewer). That is it. One step.
I had a bad experience with greptile due to what seemed to be excessive noise and nit comments. I have been using cursorbot for a year and really like it.
This is common. Big company buys smaller company. Smaller company execs stay on and establish the idea of independence. Eventually smaller company execs move on and Big company fills the ranks with their employees. Nothing sinister. Just how it goes.
Having been aquihired three times by FAANG+, the biggest take away is have accelerated vesting. To do that you got be lucky or in the C-suite. Being bought out usually sounds better then reality for everyone but a few that get that accelerated vesting clause.
I used to be bullish on creating ERDs, often using them as an onboarding exercise, even for databases with 100+ tables. However, comprehensive ERDs are becoming rare, and that's okay. Their value is short-lived due to the high cost of maintenance. While polished ERDs can be nice to have, they aren't essential.
For creating ERDs as code, tools like dbdiagram.io and eraser.io are popular options. ERWin is the original tool for UML/ERD diagrams, but it's expensive.
hand creating these seems like a mistake, i.e, like you said hard to maintain. In my opinion every database should generate (or have a tool) to generate diagrams automatically.
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