Everyone is shipping faster. Nobody is thinking harder. That's the problem. AI tools are incredible at execution. They write code, generate boilerplate, wire up services in seconds. But they accelerate whatever decision you give them — including the wrong one. And the wrong one, at AI speed, becomes a distributed system nobody understands in three weeks. This talk is not about DDD. It's not about hexagonal architecture. It's about the one thing AI can't replace: understanding the problem before you build the solution. We'll walk through how teams fall into the "orchestration trap" — using AI to generate structure without ever modeling the domain — and what it looks like to use AI as a thinking partner instead of an execution engine. How to use it to discover, to challenge assumptions, to map the problem space before touching a single line of code. You'll leave with a concrete mental model and three questions you can ask your team tomorrow that cost nothing and save weeks. No slides full of boxes and arrows. Just a conversation about how we actually think — and how to do it better with the tools we now have.

Session Speakers

Adrián Pastén

Senior Software Engineer