Why Senior Architects are Banning AI from their Learning Stack

In 2026, the software industry is fiercely obsessed with one metric: velocity. We now have generative tools capable of scaffolding an entire Flutter CRUD application from a single sentence prompt. But for a Senior Architect, velocity without deep understanding isn't a superpower. It's just technical debt with a faster delivery date. My deep motivation for learning new stacks like migrating from Flutter to React Native and Expo without the aid of AI is incredibly simple: Intuition cannot be outso