AI Is Writing the Code but Who Is Designing the System? Pablo M. Rivera on the Architecture Gap

AI Is Writing the Code—but Who Is Designing the System? By Pablo M. Rivera | Hawaii, Colorado & East Haven, CT I have been using AI coding tools almost every day for the past year. They are incredible. I can generate functions, debug issues, and build components in a fraction of the time it used to take. But something has been bothering me, and I think the industry needs to talk about it. We are getting really good at producing code and really bad at understanding how it all fits together. Missing Pieces in the Puzzle Last month I was reviewing a system that had been built fast, mostly with AI assistance. Every individual piece worked. Clean code. Tests passing. Well-documented functions. But when I stepped back and looked at the whole thing, there were gaps everywhere. A payment flow that did not account for refunds. An API integration that fell apart when two users hit it simultaneously. A dashboard pulling from a data source that nobody was maintaining. Each piece had been built by