The Architecture Is Too Late – Coherence is built upstream, not refactored into chaos

From Chaos to Coherence: What AI Cannot Do for Your Architecture

In my previous post, I argued that full specification fails with AI — and that component-based architecture with clear interfaces is the right model. Since then, several readers pointed me to a similar argument by Javi Lopez, who draws a sharp parallel to the CASE tools of the late 1980s: the same promise, the same illusion, a new mask. Lopez is right. And I want to go one step further — not just to say what goes wrong, but to show what it looks like when it goes wrong, and what it takes to recover. ...

May 25, 2026 · 5 min · Karl-Heinz Reichel