AI and architecture - Barry O’Reilly - LinkedIn:
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.
Well said.