Moving fast and not breaking the wrong things in the age of AI

“Nothing is certain, but death and taxes” is what I heard so many times. The truth is that “Nothing is certain but change.” And change seems to be happening faster and faster. There are two architectural characteristics that we can use to describe said change: volatility and variability.

“Nothing is certain, but death and taxes” is what I heard so many times. The truth is that “Nothing is certain but change.” And change seems to be happening faster and faster. There are two architectural characteristics that we can use to describe said change: volatility and variability.

Nowadays we move faster and faster to catch up with the reality of the market, hype cycles, needs and wants of ‘the business’. We finally managed to understand that variability is the second hardest problem in software architecture, and volatility is only making it worse. Then came the age of ‘AI’ tools, bringing new products, new ways of working, a new hype to have a race in. We’re moving faster or at least it seems like it is so. The question is, how can we keep on going? How can we figure out what to do and not break things that we shouldn’t be breaking?

Joining us this session are Andrew Harmel-Law, a highly enthusiastic, self-starting and responsible tech principal at Thoughtworks. Together we’ll dive into further exploration of variability extending the conversation from DDD Europe 2025. We’ll dismantle the shift in the problem space of architectural variability and how to make the right decisions at the new speed!

Join us live in this discussion!