Altered Craft
Sam KeenSoftware craftsmanship in the age of AI
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 130 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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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...
Weekly Review: System One Catches On
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thanks for reading along again this week. Last week’s Jev already has company. A hands-on test shows where its calibrated confidence pays off, and two open decision mode...
Weekly Review: System One
Thank you for making Altered Craft's weekly AI review for developers part of your Monday. The standout this week is Jev, a "System One" model that spent two years in stealth. Instead of generating text, it returns typed decisions with cal...
Weekly Review: Enough Is a Number
Hello again, and thanks for opening Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. This week keeps putting a number on enough, and the number is usually smaller than expected: a 4-bit model matching full precision, a 2MB detector beatin...
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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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