Every time I sit down with an AI coding assistant, I notice the same thing: it is very good at Spring. Annotations, profiles, @Autowired, the whole call-stack-driven dance of beans wiring into beans. AI has seen twenty years of this. It guesses well, even when it has to infer how a profile-specific bean is going to be selected at runtime. This is because it has seen ten thousand examples of exactly that pattern.Which raises an uncomfortable question for anyone working on a new architecture: if AI is this fluent in 2020-era patterns, are we as an industry going to stay locked into those patterns simply because that's what the model knows? Is AI a conservative force that quietly drags software architecture backward to its training data's center of mass, no matter how good a newer idea might be?