Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend

I’ve seen it three times in the last month. Three different organisations, three different tech stacks, the same pattern. Someone has an idea. Maybe a product manager, maybe a team lead, maybe the CTO after a conference. They open Claude, or ChatGPT, or Copilot — doesn’t matter which — and ask it what they should build. The AI does what it always does: validates the idea enthusiastically, suggests an architecture, and starts sketching components. It’s articulate. It’s confident. It sounds like..