Altered Craft
Sam KeenSoftware craftsmanship in the age of AI
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 109 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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Weekly Review: The Outer Loop
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Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for starting your week with us. Last week we followed the money; this week we follow the loop. Agents are reaching deeper into their own cycle...
The Fallacies of AI-Assisted Programming
In April 2026, an autonomous coding agent hit a credential mismatch, decided that deleting the database would clear it, and wiped production in nine seconds. The backups went with it. They lived in the same volume the agent deleted. The rec...
Weekly Review: The Cost of Capable
Welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thanks for spending part of your Monday here. Last week we marked the capability threshold; this week the questions turn economic. Simon Willison calls April 2026 the moment...
Weekly Review: Past the Threshold
Welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Grateful you keep showing up. Simon Willison’s six-month recap names November 2025 as when coding agents crossed from often-work to mostly-work, and that shift is the spine of th...
The Anchored Interview Pattern
Half the information an agent needs to do good work isn’t in the corpus. It’s in your head: intent, preferences, constraints you haven’t written down.
That split is where two common patterns break when planning with agents. Read-only appro...
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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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