No, AI is not yet able to architect. The confusion here is the inability to discern architecture from planning.
Planning is the ability to map concerns to solutions and project solution delivery according to resources available. I am not convinced AI is anywhere near getting that right. It’s not straightforward even when your human assets are commodities.
Acting on plans is called task execution.
Architecture is the design and art of interrelated systems. This involves layers of competing and/or cooperative plans. AI absolutely cannot do this. A gross hallucination at one layer potentially destroys or displaces other layers and that is catastrophically expensive. That is why real people do this work and why they are constantly audited.
None of my parent comment had anything to do with writing code. Architects in physical engineering don’t hammer nails or pour concrete. Architects in software, likewise, aren’t concerned with islands of code.
Planning is the ability to map concerns to solutions and project solution delivery according to resources available. I am not convinced AI is anywhere near getting that right. It’s not straightforward even when your human assets are commodities.
Acting on plans is called task execution.
Architecture is the design and art of interrelated systems. This involves layers of competing and/or cooperative plans. AI absolutely cannot do this. A gross hallucination at one layer potentially destroys or displaces other layers and that is catastrophically expensive. That is why real people do this work and why they are constantly audited.