{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/6/everyone-s-a-software-architect-now", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 6, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/6/everyone-s-a-software-architect-now", "kind": "update", "summary": "Everyone's a software architect now", "details": ["A non-engineer built 30,000 lines of working code in a week with AI and asked me how to stop the agents rewriting the same thing every prompt.", "Senior engineers ask the same question about ten-year codebases. The timescale collapsed from years to weeks.", "A much wider group now builds internal tools and single-user apps, like the MS Access wave before the multi-user limits hit.", "For diligence, count how many on the team author process scaffolding against how many ship features."], "links": [], "tags": ["ai", "architecture", "due-diligence"], "happened_on": "2026-06-02", "created": "2026-09-27T13:15:36.046529Z", "edited": "2026-09-27T13:58:42.812604Z"}}