AI Assistants for Software Architects: How to Use Them Right
10 Jul 2026 / Alex Bolboaca / No Comments
Most developers aren’t using AI assistants anywhere near their full potential for architecture work. This video breaks down a practical framework for using AI at every stage of making a strategic technical decision — not to get “the perfect answer,” because that doesn’t exist in architecture, but to make better-informed trade-offs.
What’s covered:
What software architecture actually means: strategic decisions that outlive the people who made them
Why every architectural decision is a trade-off, not a right answer
The four ways architects make decisions: knowledge/experience, research, collaboration, prototypes
Using AI assistants to do the research legwork for an Architecture Decision Record
Using AI for review and critique passes on your ADR before it goes to the team
Generating and testing prototypes with AI to validate a decision instead of going on intuition alone
AI won’t hand you the perfect architecture. It’ll hand you a draft you can shape — and that’s already a big step up from where most teams are today.
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