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Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend

by Charlie Holland hollandtech.net published 2026-04-066 min read

Somewhere between 'ask Claude for a quick opinion' and 'Claude is writing our Jira tickets,' we lost the plot. AI agents are brilliant implementers. They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters. And when it all falls over, they won't be the ones carrying the bag.

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