A dashboard for a single software company, month by month from January 2023 to December 2029. Drag the timeline to move through it. Each year the machine writes more and the person reads less of it.

  1. 2023 — “You authored every diff.” 18B agent tokens a month.
  2. 2024 — “You read every diff.” 74B.
  3. 2025 — “You skimmed the long diffs.” 255B.
  4. 2026 — “You are now reading summaries.” 725B.
  5. 2027 — “Who is actually reading these?” 2.5T.
  6. 2028 — “What does approval even mean now?” 9.3T.
  7. 2029 — “How do you know it works?” 35T, and 151M contributions in the year.

The paper calls this 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.

Jan2023

You authored every diff.

Tokens / month7.6B
Logs / month15B
Contributions in 20230
Disintegrator

Stop reading logs.
Start measuring outcomes.

The
Superdark
Factory

Read the paper

Poliks. Trillo. Dunn. Scott-Douglas. Springett. The Superdark Factory: Toward the Full Automation of Software. Antikythera (MIT Press). .