Software architecture and design play a critical role in bootstrapping and maintaining successful applications and services. In the past 2 decades, we have moved from desktop/monolith/on-prem to microservices/cloud/cloud-native/hybrid. For the most part, we are still discovering how to build robust software that delivers as many 'ilities' as possible and what trade offs to make.

In the past few months, generative AI and the coding capabilities of models, both proprietary and open, had surprised many of us. Although these models have plenty of shortcomings, they offer experienced software architects and practitioners new opportunities, highlight new concerns and inevitably demand we prepare ourselves, our businesses and our societies for the future.