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7/12/2026
The original title is "DDD & More: Expert panel on AI's impact on software architecture and design"

The original title is "DDD & More: Expert panel on AI's impact on software architecture and design"

Original: DDD & More: Is Software Design Dead in the Age of Automatons?

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A panel discussion featuring Martin Fowler, Mathias Verraes, Xin Yao, and Andrew Harmel-Law explores how AI is reshaping software design and architecture. Key themes include the synergy between clean modular code and AI agent efficiency, the expert illusion where AI hallucinates in niche domains, and the psychological hazard of cognitive atrophy from over-reliance on LLMs. The panel argues that software ecosystems are socio-technical systems that mathematical token-predictors fundamentally misunderstand.

  • •Clean, modular code benefits both human developers and AI agents equally
  • •AI mimics developers' worst shortcuts when guardrails are absent, not just best practices
  • •Over-reliance on LLMs creates cognitive atrophy; socio-technical systems can't be reduced to tokens

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