Archive - Altered Craft

Weekly Review: The Stack Around the Model

The week's curated tutorials, tools, and news on memory layers, harness frameworks, and the production plumbing around AI agents

4 hrs ago • Sam Keen

Weekly Review: Training the Apprentice

The week's curated tutorials, tools, and news for developers learning to train the agent rather than approve its work

May 4 • Sam Keen

Notes from building a tiny long-running agent harness

Twenty cents and a workbench for open-weights models

May 1 • Sam Keen

April 2026

Weekly Review: Around the Model

The week's curated tutorials, tools, and news for developers building the structures wrapped around AI models

Apr 27 • Sam Keen

The Rise of Ephemeral Interfaces

Show me a visual for this moment: what's possible now, what's still rough, and what it means for how you build

Apr 23 • Sam Keen

Weekly Review: Beneath the Model Name

The week's curated tutorials, tools, and news for developers working beneath the model layer

Apr 20 • Sam Keen

Weekly Review: Discipline Over Tools

This week's curated tutorials, tools, and news on the craft of building with AI

Apr 13 • Sam Keen

A Claw-Lite That Runs on Your Claude Code Subscription

OpenClaw got cut off. Here's what I've been running instead.

Apr 10 • Sam Keen

Weekly Review: Know Your Harness

This week's curated tutorials, tools, and news on the infrastructure that makes AI models actually useful

Apr 6 • Sam Keen

Local Models, Specialists Not Substitutes

A local OCR pipeline demonstrates where small models genuinely win

Apr 3 • Sam Keen

March 2026

When Your AI Coding Tool Becomes Your Teacher

I built a learning framework from nothing but natural language. Here's what happened when I used it.

Mar 31 • Sam Keen

Weekly Review: Tighten the Loop

This week's curated tutorials, tools, and news on building better feedback loops for AI development

Mar 30 • Sam Keen

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