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TRURO, NOVA SCOTIA • APRIL 1

Waterfall2026

ATLANTIC SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE BY IMPROV

Prompt-Driven Architecture: The Diagram Is Whatever the Model Imagined

Presenter: Nova Kern, Principal Rectangle Arranger

Time: 09:00, or whenever the generated calendar decides

Room: Architecture Astral Plane B

Portrait of Nova Kern

Nova Kern has designed eleven enterprise architectures, seven of which exist as PNGs. Nova's signature technique is adding a cloud icon around anything nobody can explain.

Abstract

Architecture used to be constrained by requirements, budgets, and physics. This talk introduces Prompt-Driven Architecture, where the system diagram is generated after the implementation and therefore enjoys complete freedom from reality.

Nova will upload a screenshot named architecture-final-v7-FINAL.png and ask an agent to infer the company's platform strategy from the arrows.

LIVE DEMO TRANSCRIPT

You're absolutely right to push back on that. The database should not point directly at the intern. I've reversed the arrow and labeled it Event Bus.

Learning Objectives

  • Convert unexplained boxes into bounded contexts.
  • Use curved arrows to imply asynchronous maturity.
  • Resolve architectural disagreements by regenerating the diagram.

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