AI is faster than us on frameworks and patterns, but it optimizes for the thing in front of it, not the shape you'll need later. Here is how architecting a system changed once I was doing it with an agent, and where I learned to keep the judgment calls mine.

What goes into an AI agent that works in production. The components, how they connect, the failure modes of each, and what the architecture looks like after teams learn what the…

The old preference For years, I preferred a traditional layered...

AI is faster than us on frameworks and patterns, but it optimizes for the thing in front of it, not the shape you'll need later. Here is how architecting a system changed once I…