Altered Craft
Sam KeenSoftware craftsmanship in the age of AI
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 133 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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Weekly Review: Just Enough Model
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Thank you for reading, and for the replies and shares that keep this going. The thread this week is how much model a job really needs. Meta’s orchestrator does no reasoning,...
Weekly Review: Where the Work Moved
Hello, and welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Thanks for reading, and for passing it along to your teams. This week’s pieces keep landing on one question: once agents write the code, where does the slow part go? A...
Weekly Review: A Second Kind of User
Welcome to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for making time for it. This edition has a clear thread: tools are being designed with the agent as a user. DuckDB’s CLI now detects a coding agent and changes its...
Two Jev’s One Dungeon Crawl
I, as many others are infatuated with Jev, which is now a class of models (rather than just the first model release from TypeSafe.)
On that point, after playing with the official Jev API, I wanted to try a Jev class model locally on my Mac...
Weekly Review: The Routing Layer
Glad to have you here for Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for reading. For the third week running, decision models lead the edition: OpenAI previewed a Decisions API, and OpenJev put an open-weights version...
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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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