Prompt engineering is not enough: where software architecture takes over

A better prompt can improve a demo.

It cannot give you:

• typed contracts
• retries with sane failure handling
• fallback paths
• grounded retrieval
• observable workflows
• safe tool boundaries

That’s the shift I wrote about in this article.

Prompt engineering still matters, but once a feature moves into production, software architecture usually decides whether it actually works.

Read here:
https://medium.com/p/f3371a973de7

Curious where others have seen this shift happen in real AI systems.