Yes it is, and the solution might not be so futuristic as everyone seems to think. First, what is a bug? Is it a bad code implementation? An unexpected input, caused by an user, or problematic hardware? For each one of the possible causes of a "bug", your software must be able to execute and debug itself simultaneously, in order to keep track of its own actions. You also need a process that uses a list of known patterns for common "programming errors" / "best practices" to identify possible pieces of code that might be causing unexpected behaviors, the biggest trick here is to have another process that replaces the identified bad practices with good ones. If the issue is caused by a bad implementation, one possible solution for it is to have a different implementation for the same function, to check if the software is producing the expected result or not. Or in alternative, you might create "step by step" tests to validate the same process. The next part, (maybe not the most difficult one) is to create a process that works as a time-machine to "go back in time", (like an auditer), that saves the state of the application in different execution times, as all the changes produced by the software. When an unexpected result is caught, the software should be able to trace back the error root, identify the cause, patch itself with one solution from your pattern list, run the application again from a saved state before the bug happened and use the auditer to reproduce the inputs after the bug, to try to achieve the wanted result. If the result is still not the expected, another solution is applied, and it repeats this last steps until the expected result is found. I must add that my solution for this problem, is not applicable to any kind of software, it is far from perfect, and maybe some steps could be very difficult "software problems" that not any programmer can solve (everyone can try), but all processes here are "doable". In conclusion, what you asked is definitely possible and most of the processes that I described already exist in software nowadays. However, the cost of implementing a software like this, and the difficulty to have a good code replacement tool makes it very difficult to implement, or adjust and expensive. It also can cause slower execution times, every time the software patches itself. In any case, I strongly believe that this sort of "self assisted" / "self fixable" software, will sooner or later make its way into the IT world, very likely as a software improvement tool , with or without AI.