Altered Craft
Sam KeenSoftware craftsmanship in the age of AI
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 105 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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The Anchored Interview Pattern
How to build agent skills that pull intent out of your head, plus a skill that builds them for you
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 wri...
Weekly Review: The Workbench
Welcome to this week’s Altered Craft AI review for developers. Thanks for showing up again. Where last week’s edition mapped the production stack around the model, this week the gravity sat one layer closer to the developer: the workbench...
Weekly Review: The Stack Around the Model
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Grateful you’re sharing your week with AC. The throughline this edition is plumbing: production-grade agent work has moved into the stack around the model. Memory turns into...
Weekly Review: Training the Apprentice
Altered Craft
Happy May the Fourth, and welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. Thanks for spending some of your week with /AC. One thread runs through this edition: the engineer’s role is shifting from writing...
Notes from building a tiny long-running agent harness
Twenty cents and a workbench for open-weights models
Notes from building a tiny long-running agent harness
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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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