# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Everyone's a software architect now

Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny

### 2026-06-02 update #ai #architecture #due-diligence
Everyone's a software architect now
- 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.

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