Matthew Clark is Head of Architecture for the BBC’s online products. Over 15 years at the BBC, he has worked on hundreds of projects - from delivering coverage of Olympic Games around the world to helping get BBC iPlayer running on the International Space Station. His focus is technical strategy: how emerging technologies can be applied pragmatically to solve real problems, move faster, and create distinctive digital experiences.
As AI systems become capable of writing, modifying, and operating software autonomously, we are entering an era where code is abundant and change is continuous. But if software increasingly builds itself, what exactly are we architecting?This talk explores how the rise of autonomous development reshapes what architecture means. Traditional patterns - from microservices to API contracts - were desi...