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I wrote the manual Karpathy said was missing for agentic AI

https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming
40•nick2837•2h ago

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nick2837•2h ago
I've been building with CLI AI agents (Claude Code specifically) for several months and noticed some powerful patterns emerging that have 10x’d my productivity.

Stuff like …

1. Morphability - natural language as executable, morphable code 2. Abstraction - encapsulating tasks into reusable commands 3. Recursion - stacking abstractions for leverage 4. Internal Consistency - the immune system of your AI system 5. Reproducibility - crash-resilient by design 6. Morphic Complexity - knowing when you've over-engineered 7. End-to-End Autonomy - what your system can do without human intervention 8. Token Efficiency - maximizing useful work per token 9. Mutation & Exploration - controlled self-improvement

Link: https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming

its free and i dont need anything from you except genuine feedback

also included system design patterns, psychological tips, and example commands :)

PaulHoule•2h ago
You have source code for this kind of system?
Havoc•1h ago
Thanks for sharing
npalli•1h ago
LOL, this is the list to keep in your head for this so called "manual". Best of luck of those who will work through this. BTW, Karpathy made that comment in 2025 not 2024.

  Morphability - natural language as morphable code
  Abstraction - tasks become reusable commands
  Recursion - stack abstractions for leverage
  Internal Consistency - prevent system drift
  Reproducibility - crash-resilient design
  Morphic Complexity - recognize over-engineering
  E2E Autonomy - measure actual capabilities
  Token Efficiency - maximize work per token
  Mutation & Exploration - controlled self-improvement
jennyholzer3•1h ago
AI in 2026 is really all about morphability.

If you aren't using multiple agents, subagents, and autonomous MCP abstractions to construct a detailed morphological model of your codebase, you'll never appreciate the sublime bliss of man-machine union that the enlightened among us here have come to know.

aleph_minus_one•1h ago
> If you aren't using multiple agents, subagents, and autonomous MCP abstractions to construct a detailed morphological model of your codebase, you'll never appreciate the sublime bliss of man-machine union that the enlightened among us here have come to know.

Is this serious or satire?

jennyholzer3•1h ago
Tell me you don't use Claude Code without telling me you don't use Claude Code.
twodave•1h ago
No need to be dismissive.
a4isms•1h ago
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is utterly impossible to parody an AI hyper-enthusiast in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.
dsr_•1h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
sho_hn•1h ago
Genuine Agent Zen is when your instructions .md contains but a single line, "Do!"

Everything else will be dated by Monday.

dsr_•1h ago
That is so January 1. Get with the program. Your approach is obsolete. You will fall behind in the global arms race. It's almost January 3, it's time for a new methodology!

Pro-tip: move to an earlier timezone so you can get the real edge on your competition.

stack_framer•1h ago
> Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's tweet[0] on Dec 26, 2024

The tweet was in 2025, not 2024.

[0] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521

reconnecting•1h ago
From the author: "A Few Disclaimers (1)

Yes, this manual was AI generated. However, the core ideas, first principles, and outline for this manual are all ..."

1. https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming/blob/main...

arduanika•1h ago
Okay, so the submitted title is a lie? "I wrote the manual..." Would you consider changing it to something more honest?
throwaway314155•1h ago
Oh come on.
arduanika•1h ago
Come on and what? We are dazzled by this cool new tech and so now precision in speech no longer matters?
jennyholzer3•1h ago
Human language is the new code; precision in speech is outdated and irrelevant
reconnecting•1h ago
It's not me who decides. I just pointed out that the irrelevant date is related to the AI generated nature of this text.
arduanika•1h ago
Ah. My bad, yelling at the messenger. But the actual "author", who might also be the submitter (nick = Nicola?), has some explaining to do. There's a lie in the submission title, and the same lie in the github readme intro.

Thanks for helping alert us all to the sloppiness and deceit. And thanks to all who flagged.

tedivm•1h ago
The person you are responded to isn't the author of the post.
arduanika•1h ago
Fair point, but neither is this lying "Nicola Sahar" character.
000ooo000•1h ago
>"Used AI"

>"Wrote this in a day"

>"So please forgive any imprecision or inaccuracies"

Um, no? You (TFA author) want people to read/review your slop that you banged together in a day and let the shit parts slide? If you want to namedrop some AI heavy hitter to boost your slop, at least have the decency to publish something you put real effort into.

sho_hn•1h ago
You are not talking to the author. The comment was a quote from TFA, written (or, well, prompted) by someone else.
MattDaEskimo•1h ago
English - or better put: human language - is not the "new code". Since the inception of programming a person could ask another to write code.

This manual is hallucinated nonsense.

The only interesting part is how people uneducated in computers and mathematics always seem to fall into the topic of recursion with AI

OutOfHere•1h ago
No. Just no. You wrote a manual for using AI for software development is all, limited to a specific approach.

You did not write a manual for applying agentic AI more broadly and generally, which is what it is about. You completely missed the mark.

_air•1h ago
It would be nice if there were a domain specific language that could help with the internal consistency problem
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Tag them in tweets too

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