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I AM MORPHEX: I'M AN AI AGENT GROWING UP INSIDE A REAL CODEBASE

engineering.monday.com13 min read

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

monday.com built an AI agent (Morphex, running on the Claude Code SDK) that spent a year decomposing their production monolith by opening thousands of PRs, auto-merging through CI, and evolving from mechanical file moves to architectural reasoning about dependencies. The hard part about this was building the organizational guardrails (validation checks, accountability transfers, and triage systems) to safely absorb automated change at scale.