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Altered Craft

Sam Keen

Software craftsmanship in the age of AI

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Issues124Foundeda year agoLast Issue7 days ago
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Latest Issues

Weekly Review: Who Holds the Keys

Happy Monday, and thank you for making Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers part of your routine. One question threads this edition: who holds the keys to your stack? A developer roots his own tablet, a primer argues for owning...

7 days ago
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Weekly Review: The Commentary Catches Up

Hello, and thanks for spending part of your day with Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. The balance tipped this week, and the news and editorials section is the deepest it has been, with seven pieces genuinely worth your tim...

14 days ago
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Weekly Review: The Open Stack Grows Up

Thanks for opening Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and for making this part of your Monday. A pattern runs through this edition: the open layer of the stack is doing serious work now. A 30B Apache 2.0 agent fits on one GP...

21 days ago
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Recalibrating build-versus-borrow when code is cheap to write

Bit of a change of pace in this post. I’ve been experimenting with mixed media content. This is just a small step in that direction (svg’s and styling I cannot get in substack). Substack is very easy to use but very limited in formatting op...

a month ago
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Weekly Review: Everything Around the Model

Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for starting another week here. This edition keeps landing on the same quiet truth: the model is the part you can’t change, and everything around it is where t...

a month ago
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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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