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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
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
May 11
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Sam Keen
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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
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Sam Keen
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Notes from building a tiny long-running agent harness
Twenty cents and a workbench for open-weights models
May 1
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Sam Keen
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