AI RESEARCH
Architecture Without Architects: How AI Coding Agents Shape Software Architecture
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.04990v1 Announce Type: cross AI coding agents select frameworks, scaffold infrastructure, and wire integrations, often in seconds. These are architectural decisions, yet almost no one reviews them as such. We identify five mechanisms by which agents make implicit architectural choices and propose six prompt-architecture coupling patterns that map natural-language prompt features to the infrastructure they require.