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Software design prepares you to use AI. Here’s how.

Architecture enables structures to grow without collapsing under the weight of their own complexity. Software design is the way we architect code in an application.

While agentic coding is quite capable at generating code, we rely on software design to make things secure, scalable, well-integrated and affordable. Without design, as the codebase grows bigger and the context becomes more complex, even the AI won’t be able to make a change without monumental token use costs and breaking other parts of the app. So, you could say software design is needed now more than ever!

Clean Architecture vs. Layered Architecture

Two architectures that I leverage as reference for software design are Clean Architecture and Layered Architecture. Despite some differences, each offer patterns that strive for the same goals:

• Separation of Concerns
• Maintainability
• Independence
• Testability
• Directional Flow

Here’s more about Clean Architecture and Layered Architecture – including a comparison – and how we make use of each in software design. I’ll compare both and provide some code examples.