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AI doesn’t take your job; it takes the boring parts.
I’ve been at Sogeti for 19 years, and as a Fellow with SogetiLabs, I spend a lot of time thinking about what’s next in tech. Right now, that conversation almost always circles back to AI. And while plenty of people worry about AI taking jobs, my experience has been the opposite: it’s made mine better.
Fear vs. Reality
The headlines love to paint AI as a threat. But in practice, it’s not replacing architects or developers—it’s amplifying us. AI is great at the repetitive stuff, the boilerplate, the “find the needle in the haystack” tasks. What it doesn’t do is replace judgment, creativity, or the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes. That’s where we still win.
How AI Helps Me Day to Day
Across my focus areas—C#, enterprise architecture, cloud-native apps, Kubernetes, and DevOps—AI consistently acts as a force multiplier.
Recently, I was stuck chasing down a Kubernetes deployment issue. Instead of slogging through endless logs, I asked an AI assistant to summarize anomalies. Within minutes, it flagged a misconfigured resource limit I’d missed. What could have taken hours turned into a quick fix, freeing me to focus on bigger architectural questions.
That’s the pattern I keep seeing: AI speeds up coding, surfaces insights faster, and streamlines cloud and DevOps workflows. It takes on the repetitive work so I can spend more time on strategy, design, and innovation—the parts of the job that truly define an architect.
The Human Element
AI can accelerate execution, but it can’t decide direction. Architecture is about trade-offs, vision, and context—things that require human judgment. Knowing when to simplify, when to scale, and how to align with business priorities is still very much a human job. Optimism comes from knowing our value is upstream of execution.
Part of a Bigger Trend
We’ve been raising the level of abstraction for years: cloud, containers, infrastructure as code. AI is simply the next step in that journey. Like IDEs or version control, it’s becoming another standard tool in the architect’s toolkit.
Why I’m Optimistic
I don’t see AI as competition. I see it as leverage. It helps me deliver faster, safer, and smarter. It frees me to spend time where it matters most—on creativity, strategy, and building systems that last.
So my advice? Don’t fear it. Experiment with it. Treat AI like electricity: a utility that powers the work, not a replacement for the worker.
The future of architecture isn’t man versus machine — it’s man with machine.