u/ArchPilotLabs

As SaaS products grow, one thing I keep seeing is architecture slowly breaking down.

Not big failures - but small things:

• features tightly coupled across modules
• “quick fixes” becoming permanent
• shared logic spreading everywhere
• no clear boundaries as the codebase grows

With AI-assisted development, this seems to get worse. You can ship faster, but structure tends to degrade over time.

Curious how people here deal with this:

• Do you think about architecture early, or only later?
• Have you faced issues scaling your codebase?
• Any practices/tools that helped keep things manageable?

I wrote a deeper breakdown here (more from an engineering perspective):
https://medium.com/@archpilot/architecture-drift-is-real-and-ai-is-making-it-worse-heres-why-16b8ab20d370

Would love to hear real experiences from people building and scaling products.