Should Developers Shift from Coding to Architecture in the LLM Era?

Question

If LLMs can generate repetitive code, does our value shift toward system design, trade-offs, and problem framing?

beardyw · Accepted Answer

> generate repetitive codeNeither LLMs nor people should be doing that.

mpweiher · Answer

So should our programming languages shift to express architecture?https://objective.st/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3690052

austin-cheney · Answer

You should be doing architecture regardless of LLMs.

paperplaneflyr · Answer

It does make sense to shift focus on Architecture, but you also need people who are able accept that design. It takes a lot of people to agree on something in an enterprise context.

LevkaDev · Answer

In my experience, the value doesn&rsquo;t really shift from &ldquo;coding&rdquo; to &ldquo;architecture&rdquo; &mdash; it shifts toward understanding constraints.On platforms like macOS, a lot of architectural decisions aren&rsquo;t about clean abstractions but about what the system actually allows you to do (WindowServer rules, accessibility APIs, focus behavior, sandboxing). LLMs can generate plausible code, but they don&rsquo;t feel where the platform pushes back.The hard part is still knowing which designs will collapse once they meet real OS behavior, not writing the glue code itself.

Should Developers Shift from Coding to Architecture in the LLM Era?

If LLMs can generate repetitive code, does our value shift toward system design, trade-offs, and problem framing?

> generate repetitive code
Neither LLMs nor people should be doing that.

So should our programming languages shift to express architecture?
https://objective.st/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689492.3690052

You should be doing architecture regardless of LLMs.

It does make sense to shift focus on Architecture, but you also need people who are able accept that design. It takes a lot of people to agree on something in an enterprise context.