#136 - AI Writes Code: Who Architects the Consequences? with Neal Ford // Software Architect & Author

Episode notes

Fitness functions, agentic guardrails, and why experienced architects matter more than ever in the AI era Show Notes: Neal Ford has spent decades thinking about how software systems hold together over time. In this episode, Tobias sits down with Neal to ask the question nobody is asking loudly enough: when AI agents write the code, who is responsible for the architecture? We dive into: -** Neal's origin story: **from journalism to mechanical engineering to computer science, and why writing made him a better architect **AI as an "advanced beginner": **why LLMs pattern-match instead of reason, and why that distinction matters deeply **Behavior vs.

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