Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for autonomous beamforming configuration change. A method that may be performed by a wireless node includes determining a communication mode to be used for communication by the wireless node, wherein the determining of the communication mode includes determining whether the communication is associated with multiple simultaneous communications with one or multiple other wireless nodes. The method may also include determining a beamforming configuration to be used for the communication based on the communication mode, and communicating in accordance with the communication mode using the beamforming configuration.