Talk deck by **Dorra Bartaguiz** (CTO, **Arolla**), presented at the **Dev With AI** conference and published as a PDF on LinkedIn on **October 15, 2026**; **61 slides**, in French with examples in English. Thesis: when AI causes velocity to surge, quality is regained through tooled *craft* practices built around the model — *harness engineering*.
#harness engineering#velocity#code review
Dorra Bartaguiz — CTO d'Arolla (conseil et formation, « agentic software crafters ») ; slides de son talk Dev With AI publiées sur LinkedIn.
SFEIR analysis note that reexamines the software architect profession in the age of generative AI through the framework of **Gregor Hohpe** (*The Software Architect Elevator*). Central thesis: the « **Oracle** » architect — the holder of supreme knowledge dictating rules from an ivory tower — is obsolete, since AI generates code and proposals on demand; the modern architect becomes an **intelligence amplifier (IQ Amplifier)** who provides teams with mental models, business context, and decision tools to leverage AI while ensuring system coherence. The document breaks down the impact **floor by floor of the "Architect Elevator"** (Enterprise / Solution / Platform / Software architect) and argues for **Domain-Driven Design (DDD)** as an essential safeguard: the **ubiquitous language** serves as the basis for *system prompts* (a domain dictionary injected via `.clinerules`/templates, reducing hallucinations and business misinterpretations) and **bounded contexts** restrict the scope entrusted to AI to maximize generation reliability. Conclusion: AI is not a threat but a catalyst that relieves the architect of technical grunt work to emphasize synthesis, strategic vision, modeling, and the human link between tech and business. Domain: software architecture, the architect's role, DDD, structured prompting, enterprise AI governance.
#Software architect#architect's role#generative AI