{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/91/what-is-the-smallest-unit-of-software-a-human-or-ai-can", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny", "photo": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/photo?v=1790520774"}, "post": {"id": 91, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/91/what-is-the-smallest-unit-of-software-a-human-or-ai-can", "kind": "update", "summary": "What is the smallest unit of software a human or AI can reliably reason about?", "verbatim": null, "details": ["Suppose that unit is always tutorial-grade code. Why demand that its author also solve production architecture?", "A compiler could transform that small program into code satisfying the larger system's contracts, boundaries and operational requirements.", "The author works on a comprehensible behaviour; the factory takes responsibility for integration."], "links": [], "tags": ["ai", "compilers", "software-engineering"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-11-08T14:54:05.910403Z", "edited": null, "source": null}}