Exploring the shift from Model-Driven Architecture to Generative AI and Context-Driven code generation, highlighting architectural guardrails and AI-enhanced solutions. If you have been in software engineering for more than a decade, you remember the golden era of Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and framework-driven code generation. We relied on strict schemas, UML diagrams, and tools like JHipster, Spring Roo, or Rails scaffolding. You defined an entity, ran a command, and t