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.<p>Stuff like …<p>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<p>Link: <a href="https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming</a><p>its free and i dont need anything from you except genuine feedback<p>also included system design patterns, psychological tips, and example commands :)
English - or better put: human language - is not the "new code". Since the inception of programming a person could ask another to write code.<p>This manual is hallucinated nonsense.<p>The only interesting part is how people uneducated in computers and mathematics always seem to fall into the topic of recursion with AI
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.<p><pre><code> 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</code></pre>
AI in 2026 is really all about morphability.<p>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.
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 Your approach is obsolete.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!<p>Pro-tip: move to an earlier timezone so you can get the real edge on your competition.
Genuine Agent Zen is when your instructions .md contains but a single line, "Do!"<p>Everything else will be dated by Monday.
> 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.<p>Is this serious or satire?
> Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's tweet[0] on Dec 26, 2024<p>The tweet was in 2025, not 2024.<p>[0] <a href="https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/karpathy/status/2004607146781278521</a>
From the author: "A Few Disclaimers (1)<p>Yes, this manual was AI generated. However, the core ideas, first principles, and outline for this manual are all ..."<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming/blob/main/morphic_programming_manual_v1.md#a-few-disclaimers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming/blob/main...</a>
i wrote the manual on notion and asked it to put it in a markdown file and fix my spelling and grammar. if you read the disclaimer full, i specifically state i did not use it for brainstorming or adding net new ideas
Okay, so the submitted title is a lie? "I wrote the manual..." Would you consider changing it to something more honest?
>"Used AI"<p>>"Wrote this in a day"<p>>"So please forgive any imprecision or inaccuracies"<p>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.
i genuinely wrote this in a day. ive been in ai for 9 years, well before chatgpt came out. i used Claude Code to turn it from my notion draft (spelling mistakes, no formatting, etc) into a well-formatted markdown file. you don't need to believe me, move on with your life. the guide is free and is meant to genuinely help someone use AI in a better way
You are not talking to the author. The comment was a quote from TFA, written (or, well, prompted) by someone else.
thanks i fixed this!
How did you get a wrong Twitter link? And the updated note has two off-by-one errors.<p><a href="https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming/commit/c3dcea513b7888c1b7be018d00d6070d6b33b139" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nicolasahar/morphic-programming/commit/c3...</a>
It would be nice if there were a domain specific language that could help with the internal consistency problem
Pls consider donating this to the Linux foundation and making tons of announcements about it.<p>Tag them in tweets too
Thanks for sharing
No. Just no. You wrote a manual for using AI for software development is all, limited to a specific approach.<p>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.
right at the top of Part 2: "The examples I give are going to be software engineering/coding specific, but they can be applied to any digital task."<p>you can genuinely use these principles for anything you want to do on your computer. I don't just use Claude Code for programming.