Designing Production-Grade AI Tools: Why Architecture Matters More Than Models

Why AI Tools Often Break Outside the Lab AI has become one of the most accessible technologies in recent years. With the rapid release of coding models and managed AI services, non-developers are now building AI-based SaaS tools. Many of these tools solve real-world problems and, at least initially, work quite well. Where things usually start to break down is not in the solution’s intelligence, but in the architecture that supports it.