AI compounds whatever discipline a company already has: where quality is measured, AI accelerates delivery; where it is not, AI accelerates debt and risk at the same speed. The fault line runs through software architecture, the one thing AI coding tools and agents cannot see.
You will leave knowing which questions to ask about your own architecture before you scale AI, and where to invest first.
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The volume of code entering organizations is rising faster than at any point in the history of software, and the capacity to review it has not kept up.
The State of Software 2026 report found that AI compounds whatever discipline a company already has: where quality is measured, AI accelerates delivery; where it is not, AI accelerates debt and risk at the same speed. The fault line runs through software architecture, the one thing AI coding tools and agents cannot see.
In this episode, Werner Heijstek sits down with Željko Obrenović, author of Grounded Architecture and Group Chief Architect at AVIV Group to test the report’s findings against 25 years of architecture work across global, multi-brand platforms.
They’ll break up the vibe monolith and get into:
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