Claims of AI driven improvement, even if true, seem to ignore the wealth of low hanging fruit that can improve individual and especially collaborative software development. This post applies that lens to architecture.
The first horrible truth is that developers pre-AI weren’t skipping architecture because they didn’t have time, it’s because architecture is orders of magnitude harder than coding and very few can do it. When we talk about the 10X dev we are very often talking about people with architecture skills. It requires skill, experience, and a little bit of luck in landing the right projects across a career. It requires technical depth, lateral thinking, and the ability to work with different kinds of people.
The second horrible truth is that developers who haven’t got there yet are almost always utterly convinced that they’re already there. This makes discussing architecture very difficult and leads to lines being drawn around architecture and gatekeeping to keep the conversations sane.
I know I’m rather late to the game but finding myself obsessed with overall software enshittification of late. Might be AI or updating to iOS 26 or just steady decline in quality of software overall not sure but it’s all I can see some days.
When helping teams be effective with tools such as User Story Maps or Example/Feature Mapping this can be a difficult mindset switch, especially for those coming from a visual/interface design first process.
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Israel Katz told journalists […] he wanted to establish a “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah to […] house […] eventually the whole 2.1 million population.
Grab your earplugs as the silence of the reaction to this will be deafening.
After Israel imposed a total blockade on March 2, most restaurants were eventually forced to close. Thai Restaurant, somehow, managed to remain open, serving only hot drinks and slices of pizza.
Nine weeks into the current starvation siege the Israeli military simultaneously bomb the nearby food market and the last restaurant in Gaza where journalists – some of the few who can afford the slices of pizza for sale – congregate to charge their phones and file their stories.
Israel was in touch with several countries about US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and relocate its population, under what Israel has termed “voluntary emigration”
