Architecture & Software Development in the Age of AI

Website: https://elevatesoul.ai/ LinkedIn:   / arman-nassirtoussi   Architecture & Culture in the Age of AI | Career Navigation @ Lunch with Georg Boegerl Is AI actually intelligent? If nobody writes code anymore, what is an engineer for? And are we automating the things that matter? In this episode of Career Navigation @ Lunch, I talk with Georg Boegerl, Director of AI Solutions & Innovation at Henkel, about how AI is changing software architecture, engineering careers and the way organizations build things. Georg has been coding since he was 13, and he says today is “the best time in my life I ever had” to be a builder. In this conversation: Why there is no “best” architecture, only one that fits its use case at a given time CODI, a simple decision framework: Context, Options, Decisions, Implications Why coding is mostly gone but software engineering is not Platforms and guardrails that let citizen developers build safely Code as an asset and a legacy, and why data outlives code Personal engineering principles as the new frameworks Is AI intelligent? “It’s all AI until you understand how it works” How junior engineers will learn architecture without years of writing code Why accountability can’t be handed to AI General-purpose AI assistants versus custom apps, and what that means for backends Are we automating the important things? Rethinking PowerPoint and corporate knowledge Career advice: try things yourself, solve other people’s problems, and invest in your people skills Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:52 Welcome & introductions 2:57 AI at Henkel: from click behavior to conversations 4:36 What architecture really means 7:26 The Architect Elevator & “no best architecture” 8:58 The CODI decision framework 9:49 Is software engineering dead? 13:15 Working prototypes & hyper-agility 14:52 Citizen developers & platform guardrails 16:36 Security at AI speed 17:32 Agentic coding: frameworks & programming languages 20:27 Code is an asset and a legacy 22:26 Reliable systems from unreliable parts 22:56 Engineering principles as the new frameworks 25:17 What is intelligence? 26:44 AI, jobs & society 27:42 Junior engineers in the age of AI 30:04 Accountability & end-to-end ownership 32:39 One AI assistant vs. many custom apps 37:02 Rethinking backends 39:52 Are we automating the important things? 41:15 The best time to be a builder 41:44 AI, GDP & a better future 43:00 Career advice for your younger self About the series: Career Navigation @ Lunch is a LinkedIn Live series by ElevateSoul.ai, hosted by Dr. Arman Nassirtoussi, about careers, leadership and technology. #AI #SoftwareArchitecture #AgenticCoding #FutureOfWork #CareerNavigation #ArtificialIntelligence #SoftwareEngineering