AI and EA – how is AI changing the work of architects?

Thu, 8 May 2025 08:45:33 GMT

Here in the AEA community, it is also worth discussing how AI technologies are having a significant impact on the work of enterprise architects, transforming design and management processes.
The impact of artificial intelligence on the EA profession includes, for example, the following:

EA professionals are involved in the business and technological foundation of AI strategies.
EAs play a role in the architectural integration of AI platforms and systems.
AI is increasingly being built into EA tools (e.g., automatic model analysis, correlation detection, risk analysis).
EA documentation and modeling support: AI tools can help automatically recognize relationships between requirements, goals, and architectural elements, and recommend architectural element hierarchies or visualizations.

Please share your experiences with AI's impact on architectural work!

Thu, 8 May 2025 11:37:41 GMT

Welcome on AEA group

Experience with AI support available in EA tools

Mon, 12 May 2025 09:49:22 GMT

Let's narrow down the question of the impact of AI to AI support built into EA tools. In what cases have you found the AI support built into EA tools useful so far? For example, who has experience using the LeanIX Enterprise Architecture AI Assistant to create app descriptions or to find alternative applications that are a better fit or to get enterprise architecture recommendations from the tool, etc.? Please share your experiences with the AEA community!

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:42:17 GMT

Let me share the specific areas where AI support has genuinely moved the needle in practice.
1.Documentation and Diagram Generation
2.Natural Language Querying
3.Automated Discovery and Classification
4.Recommendation Engines
The human element remains critical—AI handles the heavy lifting while I focus on stakeholder relationships, strategic thinking, and creative problem-solving. It's not replacement; it's amplification of what makes us valuable as architects.

Research, Experiments and a new age spell checker

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 01:25:12 GMT

For me, it's been great for researching and quickly gaining an understanding of a broad range of topics. 1. That's often the role of an EA and with the ever-increasing rate of change, its getting more difficult. For example, yesterday I wanted to understand some of the issues that had been reported at a superficial level on digital driving licenses across several states in Australia. I was able to find other relevant sources using Research and web lookup tools, and suddenly I was on a journey through W3C-verifiable-credentials, blog posts by developers bringing up issues in 2019 that still hadn't been solved(!), holograms, reviewing ISO 18013-5 specs for mobile devices and comparing standards. I just couldn't have done that so quickly so it's a real accelerator for knowledge worker roles. As these tools now often provide citations, it's easy to double check their accuracy. This would have taken several hours if I had to do it by myself and it probably took me an hour to feel I had enough of an appreciation with a mixture of AI Research and my own web trawling and reading. 2. Another area is learning emerging technology. I'm a firm believer in reading and applying for an ah-ha moment of understanding. Too often as architect we have time only to do the former and gain a theoretical understanding and we're expected to be always learning about new technologies. I was interested in a new way prompting, and luckily a Declarative Self-improving Python (DSPy) course was just released on deeplearning.ai. After taking the short course, I was still confused!!! :) So I opened a Jupyter notebook and vibe-coded my way through understanding the concepts of using DSPy frameworks. This would have taken me a few days rather than a few hours. 3. And then for this post I asked it to check for typos and UK English! :) :)

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:10:26 GMT

My Interpretation of the Future of Architecture:
The Architect’s value shifts from documentation to dynamic business value. The SA becomes a Cloud & AI Orchestrator, delivering secure solutions via Infrastructure as Code, not PDFs. The EA becomes the Strategic Simulator, moving from policing to co-managing the investment portfolio. Frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman) aren't dead; they're automated with AI. Their principles are coded into tools, providing instant governance. We stop documenting history and start architecting quantifiable ROI.