AI expands architects’ thinking, clarifying requirements, generating options, and stress‑testing assumptions. This session shows how to steer AI toward constraint‑aware analysis, avoid hallucinated designs, and turn AI output into durable artifacts like ADRs and decision logs for responsible, repeatable architecture.
This session focuses on employing AI as a partner to architects throughout the architectural process. Rather than replacing architects, AI expands their exploration of possibilities, specifically in clarifying ambiguous requirements, generating and evaluating design options, and assessing assumptions to avoid costly errors.
We will walk through an end-to-end example demonstrating how AI can highlight hidden constraints, uncover risks early, and broaden the problem space to support architectural decisions. The session will also cover where AI falls short (hallucinating APIs, inventing constraints, shallow reasoning) and offer targeted techniques to guide AI toward useful, constraint-aware analysis and transparent trade-off justifications.
The session concludes with a practical review workflow. You will learn to check and correct AI's mistakes, enforce your requirements, and formalize AI-generated concepts into lasting architectural documents such as ADRs and decision logs. You will leave with an actionable workflow for collaborating responsibly with AI throughout the architectural process.
- Use AI to interrogate requirements and surface hidden constraints. Learn how to turn vague inputs into architecturally meaningful clarity.
- Co-design architectures with AI using a structured trade-off workflow. Generate and compare options quickly while forcing AI to reason rather than regurgitate.
- Convert AI output into durable, human-owned decisions. Detect hallucinations, enforce constraints, and refactor AI ideas into governance-aligned artifacts.
| Event | Location | Date | Time | Room | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cloud & AI Summit 2026 | St. Louis, MO | 2026-10-01 | 8:30 CDT | Brilliance | Slides |
| Beer City Code 2026 | Grand Rapids, MI | 2026-08-15 | 13:00 EDT | Room 107 | Slides |Prompt Library |
| Scenic City Summit 2026 | Chattanooga, TN | 2026-06-05 | 11:00 EDT | Room 13 | Slides | Prompt Library |
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