Ex-Continue founder publishes 'Superdark Factory' paper on fully automated software in MIT Press journal
tylerjdunn · x · 2026-09-10
After Continue's acquisition, Tyler Dunn reveals his next move: a paper co-authored with Disintegrator, The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software, published today in Antikythera (MIT Press). It envisions a self-optimizing, self-directing software factory whose output exceeds its creators' abilities, and proposes the 'dark stack' design principles: structural primitives for learning, versioning that measures behavior over identity, an adversarial evaluation layer as the factory's sensory organ, and a co-written charter for governance. Humans become strategic players steering evolving software alongside agent swarms.
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