Deep dives & Notes

Notes from building a tiny long-running agent harness

Twenty cents and a workbench for open-weights models

May 1 • 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

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

Local Models, Specialists Not Substitutes

A local OCR pipeline demonstrates where small models genuinely win

Apr 3 • Sam Keen

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

What unused credits are really telling you

Mar 20 • Sam Keen

Catching Up with Claude Code

A guided tour of the features, primitives, and platform shifts behind Anthropic's coding agent

Mar 10 • Sam Keen

Conductor and the Agent Orchestration Environment

Managing five AI agents from one interface

Feb 25 • Sam Keen

Your Coding Agent Forgot to Lock the Door

A practical guide to securing the Supabase project your AI helped you build

Feb 18 • Sam Keen

Four Hundred Builders, One Day, No Filler

Inside the first Pragmatic Summit

Feb 14 • Sam Keen

We Choose Our Craft

The craft hasn't died. Its expanded.

Feb 11 • Sam Keen

The Steering Tax

Why the most capable model is often the cheapest path to working code

Feb 4 • Sam Keen

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