Ex-Continue founder publishes 'The Superdark Factory' in MIT Press: 35T agent tokens/month by 2029
tylerjdunn · x · 2026-09-10
Tyler Dunn (acquired by Continue, then Continuedev) and Disintegrator published The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software in Antikythera (MIT Press), with an interactive dashboard simulating one software company from 2023 to 2029.
Key beats from the timeline:
- 2023: "You authored every diff" — 18B agent tokens/month
- 2025: "You skimmed the long diffs" — 255B
- 2027: "Who is actually reading these?" — 2.5T
- 2029: "How do you know it works?" — 35T tokens/month, 151M contributions/year
The paper coins "darkness": information that stays perfectly accessible and legible while ceasing to be useful, as total review gives way to sampled review and the approval gate becomes a formality. Its prescription: stop reading logs, start measuring outcomes.
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