I wrote the manual Karpathy said was missing for agentic AI(github.com)
42 pointsby nick2837a day ago11 comments
  • nick2837a day 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 :)

    • PaulHoulea day ago
      You have source code for this kind of system?
    • dingnutsa day ago
      [dead]
  • MattDaEskimoa day 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

  • npallia day 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
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    • jennyholzer3a day 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.

      • dsr_a day 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.

      • sho_hna day ago
        Genuine Agent Zen is when your instructions .md contains but a single line, "Do!"

        Everything else will be dated by Monday.

      • aleph_minus_onea day 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?

  • stack_framera day 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

    • reconnectinga day 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...

      • arduanikaa day ago
        Okay, so the submitted title is a lie? "I wrote the manual..." Would you consider changing it to something more honest?
        • reconnectinga day 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.
          • arduanikaa day 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.

        • tedivma day ago
          The person you are responded to isn't the author of the post.
          • arduanikaa day ago
            Fair point, but neither is this lying "Nicola Sahar" character.
        • throwaway314155a day ago
          Oh come on.
          • arduanikaa day ago
            Come on and what? We are dazzled by this cool new tech and so now precision in speech no longer matters?
            • jennyholzer3a day ago
              Human language is the new code; precision in speech is outdated and irrelevant
              • arduanika21 hours ago
                You almost had me there, I'll admit, but then I looked at your (short, new) comment history for a Poe's Law check. A much-needed perspective around here! Keep it up, and good luck staying on the right side of the site guidelines -- your shtick is close to the edge, but very refreshing if done well.
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      • 000ooo000a day 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_hna day ago
          You are not talking to the author. The comment was a quote from TFA, written (or, well, prompted) by someone else.
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          • 000ooo00020 hours ago
            I know, that's why I'm quoting the author and not the commenter, and why I said "you (TFA author)"
  • mjmas16 hours ago
    How did you get a wrong Twitter link? And the updated note has two off-by-one errors.

    https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming/commit/c3...

  • _aira day ago
    It would be nice if there were a domain specific language that could help with the internal consistency problem
  • Havoca day ago
    Thanks for sharing
  • johnnyfived21 hours ago
    Pls consider donating this to the Linux foundation and making tons of announcements about it.

    Tag them in tweets too

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  • OutOfHerea day 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.