How to Instantly Explain Your Code with Visuals (Powered by GPT-4)

Author(s): Mukundan Sankar

Originally published on Towards AI.

Tired of people not reading your blog or GitHub README? Here’s how to turn your Python script into a visual story anyone can understand in seconds.

In Part 1, I introduced Code to Story — a tool that helps you turn raw Python code into a structured, human-readable story.

I built it for one reason: I was tired of writing code I couldn’t explain.

Not because I didn’t understand it.

But because when someone — a hiring manager, a teammate, even a friend — asked, “What does this do?” …I froze.

I’d stumble. I’d default to low-energy phrases like:

“Oh, it’s just something I was playing around with…”

I realized I had spent hours solving a real problem… only to fail at the most important step: communication.

So I built a tool that solved that — something that turns code into a narrative. That was Part 1.

But there was a deeper layer I hadn’t solved yet.

Even after turning code into blog posts, people still didn’t engage.

Why?

Because they didn’t have the time.

When I sent my blog to:

Future hiring managersFriends I respectDevelopers I admire

…they didn’t react. Not because they didn’t care.

But because they were busy.

Busy working. Job-hunting. Parenting. Resting.

The truth hit me hard:

No one owes your work their time.

But you can make your work easier to understand in less time.

So I asked myself:

What’s the fastest way for someone to “get it” without reading anything?

And the… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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