Altered Craft
Sam KeenSoftware craftsmanship in the age of AI
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 119 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Weekly Review: What Thinking Costs
Thanks for opening Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and for making it part of your Monday. This week’s picks keep putting a price on something that used to feel free. Tokens carried between turns, context resent every call...
Weekly Review: Who Gets the Work
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Read this week’s picks together and they keep asking the same question: who should actually do this work. Sometimes the answer can be a cheaper model. Sometimes a machine yo...
Weekly Review: Shape It Yourself
Hello, and welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, with thanks for making this part of your week. Another strong open-weight model landed with Inkling, but the more interesting part is Tinker, the fine-tuning service b...
Weekly Review: The Great Divide
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for keeping this a Monday ritual. This week a survey put a number on something many of us feel: the tech workforce is splitting in two, those amplified by AI a...
My Current Approach to AI-Augmented Development
This is the development process I’m using right now for AI-augmented work. I tune it constantly, so treat it as a snapshot. It works for me at my current scale, and parts might work for you. Offered as building blocks, not a complete bluepr...
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25+ years building software at AWS, Nike, and startups. Author of Clean Architecture with Python. Now writing full-time about how AI reshapes engineering. Hype not included
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