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Altered Craft

Sam Keen

Software craftsmanship in the age of AI

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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...

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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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Weekly Review: The Burden of Proof

Thanks for opening Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and for making this a Monday habit. One thread runs through this week’s picks: the burden of proof has moved onto the output. An essay on AI confidence theater puts it pl...

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Weekly Review: The Hard Half

Welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thanks, as always, for reading. A pattern runs through this issue: the model is no longer the whole job. The work has moved to the system around it, the loop you engineer, th...

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Weekly Review: Around the Model

Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Thanks for reading, and for sticking with us into a quieter week after the frontier-model drama. One pattern runs through this issue: as models get cheaper, more open, and e...

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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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