I agree architecture is important. But I think the best way to design a good architecture is to have a high level plan, and then feel it out by coding parts of it (usually near component edges / interfaces) in the actual domain with real use cases.

That exploration helped me see whether general "best practices" are applicable in this frame, and let me justify if not.

That was also prevailing opinion pre LLM:

> Only the hands on engineers can shape it since the design evolves in step with writing the code.

So I'm curious to know where people changed their minds.