From Data to Decisions: Software Architectures for Agentic and Generative AI Systems
The AI landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, moving beyond isolated model capabilities toward fully autonomous systems that perceive, reason, and act across diverse data modalities. Multimodal AI , integrating text, images, audio, and video, combined with agentic autonomy and generative models , is enabling applications that are more context-aware, interactive, and intelligent than ever before. However, engineering these systems at scale to meet rigorous business demands requires sophisticated pipeline architectures, robust orchestration, and disciplined software engineering practices. This article examines the convergence of agentic and generative AI within software engineering, explores the latest frameworks and deployment strategies for scalable multimodal pipelines, and shares advanced tactics for building resilient autonomous AI systems. We highlight practical lessons from cutting-edge deployments and discuss ethica...