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Real production systems require architecture, determinism, integration, and human interaction. Prompting harder does not produce those properties.
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The industry is obsessed with agents and prompting. That focus is not wrong—but it is incomplete. Real production systems require architecture, determinism, integration, and human interaction. Prompting harder does not produce those properties. Designing better systems does. The real question is not whether AI can generate code. It is whether it can generate systems—coherent, deployable, and reliable. That requires design, not just generation.