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Teaching AI to Think Like an Architect

Most AI tools naturally think:

This is how junior developers often think as well. A skill teaches AI to think differently:

  • This shift is one of the most important concepts in modern AI-assisted development.
  • The objective is no longer: Generate code.
  • The objective becomes: Generate architecture.

Mini Exercise​

Take a prompt like:

Build a user settings page.

Rewrite it into an architecture-first workflow with explicit steps from requirement to implementation.

Example​

1. Identify the domain: User Management.
2. Identify the subdomain: User Settings.
3. Define the required assets: UserSettingsModel, UserSettingsService, UserSettingsState, UserSettingsApi.
4. Define the UI structure: SettingsField, SettingsSection, SettingsForm, SettingsTemplate, SettingsPage.
5. Generate the structure.
6. Implement the generated files.