Grady Booch: coding agents merely pattern-match and can't do real architecture
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-13
Software engineering luminary Grady Booch argues coding agents aren't even good at design: they choose implementations via superficial pattern matching. Architecture — the set of significant decisions shaping a system, measured by cost of change — remains fundamentally human work, not something coding agents do.
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