Building the Architecture for Tomorrow

Greg Thomas
3 min readJul 24, 2023

I came across this post today that is making the rounds this morning across a few sites as to what AI thinks the future of all these “things” that we have will be…

News flash…

Cars will still have 4 wheels.

Bikes will still have 2 wheels.

Mcdonald's will look fancy but definitely not as cool as this was…

All in all, things seem to get sleeker if anything, and that might be because that is what we are demanding right now, today, in what we are building and what we are trying to work towards.

Side Note: Sadly AI had no prediction that we’d have flying cars :(

The same principle has applied to Software Architecture for many years, we design for what we know today, aiming for scale, security, and performance but knowing that there are so many variables we don’t understand that it is near…

--

--

Greg Thomas

Software Architect, Developer, Author and Leader helping organizations build scalable software delivery teams and implement cloud-based solutions