Pattern: Enterprise Architecture Patterns Are Dead — paddo.dev Argues AI Makes Code Cheap to Write and Change

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paddo.dev's latest post 'Your Architecture Is Showing' (March 30) argues that enterprise design patterns — hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, domain-driven design layers — were designed for a world where code was expensive to write and expensive to change, and that world has ended. With AI coding agents making code generation and refactoring near-instant, the overhead of defensive architecture now exceeds the cost of rewriting. This directly challenges the governance frameworks (ai-rules, Ruler) emerging simultaneously, creating a genuine philosophical tension in the ecosystem.