Ex-Continue Cofounder Publishes 'Superdark Factory' Paper on Full Software Automation

With Continue's acquisition, the whereabouts and output of co-founder Tyler Dunn (co-authoring with Disintegrator) are now revealed: the paper "The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software" was published on September 10 in Antikythera, a journal under MIT Press. The paper proposes an extreme form of software production, and its vision of software engineering in the agent era is worth the industry's attention.

Confirmed

• The paper "The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software", co-authored by Tyler Dunn and Disintegrator, was published on September 10 in Antikythera under MIT Press, and the full text is live on the journal's site.
• Author background: Tyler Dunn is a former employee/co-founder of Continue (continuedev) after its acquisition; his whereabouts were previously unknown, and this paper reveals his new direction.
• The paper predicts monthly consumption of 35T agent tokens by 2029.
• The paper's core concept is a "superdark factory": self-driven, setting its own goals, recursively self-optimizing around those goals, with internal logic too fast for humans to comprehend — essentially "a company with no people inside."
• The paper details the four principles of the dark stack (mentioned in the post but not elaborated; see the full text for details).

Why it matters

• From the perspective of a frontline AI coding tool founder, the paper systematically depicts an end-state of fully automated software; its quantified forecast for agent business models and compute (token consumption) demand — 35T agent tokens per month by 2029 — offers reference value for industry planning.
• The "dark stack" concept challenges the current ideal of observable, understandable tech stacks, raising the fundamental question of humanity's role in an era of autonomously running agents.

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