AI without spaghetti: Clean architecture in the age of AI

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:00:01 +0000

When “Just ship it” turns into lasagna code

We start with a familiar scene: a small experiment that grows faster than its architecture can handle. This is exactly the kind of situation where clean architecture becomes essential. Like layering pasta without checking the recipe, we kept adding features until the structure began to wobble.

At first everything seems perfectly reasonable. A quick integration with an API, a prompt that produces surprisingly good results. Suddenly the prototype starts solving real problems. The codebase grows organically: a helper class here, a service there. Maybe a controller that does just a little bit more than it probably should.

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AI without spaghetti: Clean architecture in the age of AI

When “Just ship it” turns into lasagna code