Defining AI-Native Systems: Autonomy as Revision Authority

AI has begun to write systems code: agents now synthesize, verify, and deploy system components. Despite this shift, "AI-native" remains a marketing term with no precise technical definition. This paper gives it one. We define AI-nativeness along a single axis---authority over the system's own decisions rather than by the capability of the underlying AI models. Building on a decision-level model of a system, we distinguish occupancy (who executes a decision) from revision authority (who may change it), organize revision authority into a ladder---self-tuning, self-rewriting, self-architecting and define a system as AI-native when an AI autonomously rewrites the system's own implementations...

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