Descriptions:
Web Dev Cody demonstrates Automaker, an autonomous AI software engineering tool he and his Discord community have been building, which uses Claude Code under the hood to construct full applications from a structured feature list — without requiring continuous human oversight. In the demo, Automaker ran overnight and produced a functional video editing application featuring OpenAI Whisper-based audio transcription, ffmpeg-powered clip cutting, automatic retake detection, and a full export pipeline with resolution and format options.
The system’s core mechanic is a dependency graph: Automaker generates a list of features, determines implementation order based on inter-feature dependencies (database schema before UI components, for example), and traverses the graph autonomously using Claude Code to implement each node. A “plan mode” added during development lets users inject new features mid-run, with the system automatically inserting them at the correct position in the dependency graph. After roughly two weeks of work, the Automaker project itself has accumulated over 1,000 commits and approximately 80,000–90,000 lines of code.
Cody is candid about the app having bugs — ffmpeg stitching had issues during the live demo — framing this as an honest snapshot of where autonomous agent-driven development currently stands. Automaker is available free at automaker.app for developers who want to experiment with fully autonomous, dependency-aware multi-feature application builds.
📺 Source: Web Dev Cody · Published December 26, 2025
🏷️ Format: Showcase
