The Schema IS the Prompt: Rethinking AI-Native Software Design

Every few years, a new abstraction arrives that makes the previous one feel embarrassing in retrospect. Raw SQL gave way to ORMs. Callback hell gave way to async/await. Manual memory management gave way to garbage collection. Each shift wasn't just about writing less code — it was about thinking differently about the problem. We're at one of those moments with AI. The way we learned to talk to LLMs Most AI-powered applications today follow the same pattern: Write a prompt string Interpolate some