What Will Remain Human in Software Architecture? A Focus Group Report

arXiv:2609.30334 · cs.SE, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.SE, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-24

Terminology

• AI Agents — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accountability — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Communication Overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Modular Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Artificial Intelligence for Software Architecture: Literature Review and the Road Ahead

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