Towards Self-Driving Codebases
Summary
Dan Robinson envisions self-driving codebases, arguing that after tokenmaxxing we need primitives and workflows to let agents autonomously migrate and rewrite code. He identifies gaps such as agent-friendly dev environments, global memory, and preventing codebase rot, and outlines a path to an agent-ready tooling stack and governance for patching and upstreaming. The piece argues for a shift from single prompts to loop-based architectures and describes a potential roadmap to bootstrap agent-driven software production.