# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Most code will never be read

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

### 2026-06-09 update #ai #code-review #due-diligence #verification
Most code will never be read
- Code gets written faster than anyone reads it, including the person who generated it and the reviewer.
- Reading it kept the codebase consistent with itself, same patterns, same decisions, one architecture instead of ten.
- People stopped reading assembly only after compilers became dependable. This time reading has thinned before generation is dependable.
- For diligence the question is now how the code is being verified.

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