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My Current Approach to AI-Augmented Development
A snapshot of how I'm building app-scale software with AI right now, and the mindset behind it
Jul 7
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Sam Keen
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Weekly Review: The Burden of Proof
The week's curated set of relevant AI Tutorials, Tools, and News, on why the claim got cheap and the proof is where the work now lives
Jul 6
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Sam Keen
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June 2026
Weekly Review: The Hard Half
The week's curated set of relevant AI Tutorials, Tools, and News, on why building an agent is the easy half and running it is the hard one
Jun 29
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Sam Keen
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Weekly Review: Around the Model
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers.
Jun 22
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Sam Keen
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Tilth gets a Flight Recorder
Seeing what a long-running agent actually does
Jun 19
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Sam Keen
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Weekly Review: Pulled Offline
A government pulls two frontier models offline overnight, and why owning your stack, from a neuron by hand to a model for $80, is more interesting then…
Jun 15
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Sam Keen
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Weekly Review: The Outer Loop
When agents start closing their own loop: the guardrails that let them self-verify, the open models racing to orchestrate, and the work that moves up…
Jun 8
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Sam Keen
The Fallacies of AI-Assisted Programming
Eight assumptions we are silently making about the new abstraction layer, and the playbook that priced them once before
Jun 3
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Sam Keen
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Weekly Review: The Cost of Capable
What changes once coding agents reliably work: the economics of capability, the ceiling open models set, and the judgment that stays yours
Jun 1
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Sam Keen
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May 2026
Weekly Review: Past the Threshold
The work that becomes load-bearing once coding agents are reliably useful: sensors, harnesses, evaluations, runtimes, and editorials testing the…
May 25
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Sam Keen
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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
May 20
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Sam Keen
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Weekly Review: The Workbench
A quiet model week with the action at the workbench: CLIs, completion commands, middleware, plan reviewers, terminals, and hardware-aware model pickers
May 18
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Sam Keen
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