Architecture on Despair Driven Developmenthttps://despairdrivendevelopment.com/tags/architecture/Recent content in Architecture on Despair Driven DevelopmentHugoen-usmatt@fitzpatricksoftware.com (Matthew FitzPatrick)matt@fitzpatricksoftware.com (Matthew FitzPatrick)Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000AI Agents Won't Save Your Legacy App. Architecture Still Matters.https://despairdrivendevelopment.com/posts/ai-agents-wont-save-your-legacy-app/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000matt@fitzpatricksoftware.com (Matthew FitzPatrick)https://despairdrivendevelopment.com/posts/ai-agents-wont-save-your-legacy-app/<p>The pitch goes like this: point an agent at the codebase, wait a weekend, ship a rewrite Monday. I have watched smart teams believe this and then spend the next quarter explaining outages.</p>