---
title: "Generate infrastructure code from a design diagram · Lenexa Learn"
description: "An engineer gives ChatGPT a labeled design diagram with detailed security notes and gets back working CDK and Terraform code."
url: https://www.lenexa.ai/learn/use-cases/generate-infrastructure-code-from-a-design-diagram/
site: "Lenexa Learn"
---

Software & DevOps

# Generate infrastructure code from a design diagram

An engineer gives ChatGPT a labeled design diagram with detailed security notes and gets back working CDK and Terraform code.

**Caution.** Never apply infrastructure code you haven't reviewed.

## Steps

1. Describe the design clearly.
2. Ask for the infrastructure code.
3. Review the security settings before you apply it.

## Prompt you can copy

```
Here's my architecture description: [paste]. Write Terraform for it with least-privilege security, and list assumptions you made.
```

## Tools

- ChatGPT

For Developers. Added October 12, 2026.

## Source

[hn](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46227431) · December 2025

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