An early-stage autonomous AI engineering system.
Aithen is an experimental system for building and maintaining software with minimal ongoing human engineering. It is being developed by running it directly on the founder’s own production app, where it plans changes, modifies code, and handles parts of the engineering loop.
Aithen treats engineering as a system, not a team.
Instead of hiring people to execute tasks, founders describe the outcomes they want. The system is responsible for planning changes, modifying the codebase, running builds, and responding to failures.
The goal is not instant replacement of engineers, but gradual autonomy — increasing the scope of what the system can handle as confidence grows.
Aithen is being built by using it.
The founder is actively dogfooding Aithen on their own production app, built with Flutter and Firebase. The system operates on a real codebase with real constraints, not a demo environment.
The goal is that the app continues shipping even if the founder stops coding.
If engineering becomes autonomous, startups scale by improving systems rather than increasing headcount.
Aithen is an early exploration of that future — not a finished solution, but a research-driven attempt to build toward it through real usage.
Ayushman Singh
Solo founder
Ayushman is building both Taggin (a social app) and Aithen.
While working on his own startup, engineering repeatedly became the bottleneck — hiring was slow, context switching was costly, and most time went into maintenance instead of progress.
Aithen began as an internal attempt to remove himself from the engineering loop, and evolved into a focused research project.