AI exposes bottlenecks in manual review, vague requirements and outdated validation models.
This article explains how spec-driven development, architectural truth models and agentic CI/CD pipelines reshape delivery for the AI era.
Architects aren’t stage-gate gatekeepers anymore. Your first deliverable isn’t a diagram; it’s a discoverable repository that teams can reuse: vision, standards, decision records, and reusable Solution Building Blocks and SADs. Build a golden path that scales your impact from one squad to the whole organisation—without becoming the bottleneck.
During my early days as SA, developers were coming to me regarding every small design issue which the leads or the senior developers should have been able to answer easily and design. I was frustrated and annoyed because the lead and senior developers were not taking ownership and the initiative. At first, my frustration was at the developer’s… Read More »