The Kitchen Loop: User-Spec-Driven Development for Autonomous Self-Evolving Codebases

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Yannick Roy presents The Kitchen Loop, a framework for autonomous self-evolving software where code production is treated as a commodity and the bottleneck shifts to knowing what to build and proving it works. The framework uses a unified trust model: a specification surface enumerating valid behaviors, a mutation engine that proposes changes, and a verification pipeline that ensures specs hold. Published in cs.SE/cs.AI, this formalizes what many agentic coding practitioners are doing ad hoc — letting AI evolve codebases against user specs.