Sam Keen

open.substack.comWeekly Review: The Great DivideWelcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for keeping this a Monday ritual.

13 July

This week's edition is out. Some of the key coverage centers around a recent study detailing how folks are being impacted by AI in tech. open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

siliconflorist.comThe first rule of Cascadia Builders Club is that you have to build stuff – Portland Oregon startups, tech, news, events, jobs, and communityOur friends across the river with North Bank Innovations are starting something in collaboration with Sam Keen of Portland AI Engineers fame: Cascadia Builders Club. So if you’re someone who …

25 June

thanks Rick, really looking fwd to getting this group rolling!

Rick Turoczy@turoczy.co

Looking to connect with folks who are actually building stuff…? Get ready to be happy. @samkeen.bsky.social and @northbankinno.bsky.social have a new event just for you. siliconflorist.com/2026/06/25/t...

open.substack.comWeekly Review: The Cost of CapableWhat changes once coding agents reliably work: the economics of capability, the ceiling open models set, and the judgment that stays yours

1 June

This week the questions turn economic. Simon Willison calls April 2026 the moment coding agents found product-market fit, even as open and specialized models put a ceiling under frontier pricing. Read and subscribe for free: writing.alteredcraft.com/p/weekly-rev...

open.substack.comThe Anchored Interview PatternHow to build agent skills that pull intent out of your head, plus a skill that builds them for you

20 May

Pulled together some thoughts regarding a pattern I’ve gotten great value from when building planning and research skills for agents open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

writing.alteredcraft.comA Claw-Lite That Runs on Your Claude Code SubscriptionOpenClaw got cut off. Here's what I've been running instead.

11 Apr

This the recent Anthropic ban on using a CC Max sub for Open Claw, I thought I would share what I've been using with CC Dispatch (max sub allowed). writing.alteredcraft.com/p/a-claw-lit...

10 Apr

Doing some Claude Code One Shot testing today. I'll let y'all know how it goes... 🍿

10 Apr

Cooked for 9m 5s (Session export: gist.github.com/samkeen/a734...)

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It's official, Claude Sonnet prefers Victor Mono. Fun game probably meant for humans... but, who's actually writing the code :) Play here: www.codingfont.com

19 Mar

het @appscout.bsky.social you should add the 2026 copywright in the footer

18 Mar

@appscout.bsky.social When I'm logged in, if I click the account button, then switch to light or dark by clicking, the switch happens but the menu stays open. I would like it to close after making my selection

16 Mar

@appscout.bsky.social The footer in the app still shows 2025

open.substack.comWeekly review: Letta Code: Memory-First CLI Coding Agent, MiMo-V2-Flash, MiniMax M2.1, and much moreThe week's curated set of relevant AI Tutorials, Tools, and News

29 Dec 2025

This week’s review is out. open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

open.substack.com2025 Leaps, 2026 PlansNo deep dive this week.

23 Dec 2025

Reflecting on 2025, a year dedicated to recalibration, I am excited about the plans for 2026, which will focus on accelerating into AI research and writing. open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

open.substack.comWeekly review: Security Fundamentals, Is Claude conscious?, and much moreEdition #151 :: This week's curated set of articles, helping you navigate AI's application in engineering

4 Nov 2025

Latest edition of Altered Craft’s weekly AI review open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

open.substack.comDevelopers, AI Changed Everything. No, You're Not DoomedWhy the best developers are getting better, not obsolete

30 Oct 2025

Some thoughts towards adapting to an AI involved software development workflow open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

open.substack.comClaude Skills: Your Workflows, Encoded Once, Applied IntelligentlyProgressive disclosure for your workflows: lightweight markdown files that load just-in-time, saving context and time.

24 Oct 2025

Latest post from Altered Craft. Quick Skills guide for those using Claude Code open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

19 Oct 2025

That is curious, I witnessed Claude Opus 4.1 in a task to "review a folder's contents" using `tree` to "get a better understanding of folder structure" 🤔

19 Oct 2025

You would expect the output of `ind` to suffice. It this just a "try everything" mentality, or does that visual layout resonate in some way with Opus 4.1. Or just random noise in a LLM's "reasoning"??

open.substack.comMapping AI Agent Adoption Across 217,000 GitHub RepositoriesWhich AI agents are developers actually using?

17 Oct 2025

I recently ran a scan of all @github.com repos in the range of 450k stars to 200 stars to see what real world coding agent use looks like. open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

15 Oct 2025

☝️Helping coding agents concur JSON If you work with a lot of JSON data, install `jq` and ensure your agent is aware of it's presence. Any frontier agent will know how to use it, but you can also hint the agent to examine `jq --help` if you think that will help.

15 Oct 2025

This will enable your agent to explore large JSON files without the need to brute force read most or all of the file (token 🔥) Additionally maintain an annotated schema file for any core JSON files enabling even more precise examination of the files by the coding agent.

open.substack.comWeekly AI Review: OpenAI AgentKit, Complete Agent Development SuitePLUS - Context Management Boosts Agent Performance 39%

13 Oct 2025

This weeks AI review for developers is out Agent kit plus much more open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

open.substack.comEngineering AI Generated Artifacts for Human ReviewWhen AI writes at 10x speed, your review process becomes the bottleneck

12 Oct 2025

Latest post from my newsletter Levering AI itself to help adapt to the disruption of AI in software development open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...

20 June 2025

My new fav mini-prompt for working with Claude (Code) - After Claude suggests a "fix": """ In your opinion is this "simple fix" addressing a bug or is it a hack? We want to ensure it brings us closer to best practices and it not just addressing a symptom of a deeper arch issue in the code base. """

9 June 2025

ScreenShotOps www-cdn.anthropic.com/58284b19e70... Kubernetes debugging with screenshots When Kubernetes clusters went down and weren’t scheduling new pods, the team used Claude Code to diagnose the issue. #ScreenShotOps

9 June 2025

They fed screenshots of dashboards into Claude Code, which guided them through Google Cloud’s UI menu by menu until they found a warning indicating pod IP address exhaustion.

9 June 2025

Claude Code then provided the exact commands to create a new IP pool and add it to the cluster, bypassing the need to involve networking specialists."

youtube.comAI EngineerTalks, workshops, events, and training for AI Engineers.

4 June 2025

The 2025 Ai engineers Worlds fair is in progress. For those who could not attend (like me), the event organizers where kind enough to put much of the content on YouTube. Great collection of talks! youtube.com/@aidotengin...

4 June 2025

Some really interesting features and approaches for dagger's LLM integration. MCP support and and elegant approach to agent loops. Best of all, open source!

docs.dagger.io/features/llm

4 June 2025

docs.dagger.ioLLM Integration | DaggerBuild powerful AI agents with Large Language Models

pmbanugo.mePeer Programming with LLMs, For Senior+ EngineersThis article contains a collection of resources for senior (or staff+) engineers exploring the use of LLM for collaborative programming.

26 May 2025

Peter Mbanugo Has pulled together a nice collection of articles speaking to the advantages and frustrations of pair programming with an AI pmbanugo.me/blog/peer-p... #GenAI #SoftwareDevelopment

24 May 2025

What a week for generative AI. With conferences from Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic

blog.google100 things we announced at I/OLearn more about the biggest announcements and launches from Google’s 2025 I/O developer conference.

24 May 2025

Here’s the official Google summary (not all ai but most at least AI adjacent) blog.google/technology/...

22 May 2025

"Pro" Tier AI Access Hitting "Sports Fanatic Cable Bill" Rates... 🤔 These price points for top-tier AI are definitely climbing, especially when many of us are familiar with the pretty solid capabilities of the ~$20/mo tiers.

22 May 2025

Google AI Ultra: $250/mo ChatGPT Pro: $200/mo Claude Max: Starting at $100/mo

22 May 2025

For those of you using premium AI tiers, how do you measure the return on your investment? Would love to hear your thoughts! What metrics make the cut for you when evaluating high-tier AI subscriptions, especially when weighing them against the value from the ~$20/mo options?

techcrunch.comY Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees | TechCrunchY Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn't go as planned. Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after a previous attempt to hire one didn't go as planned.

21 May 2025

FireCrawl is hiring Agents Bit of a publicity stunt (they are also hiring the human who created the agent) Is this a glimpse of future roles: ” _____ agent operator” (ex: coding agent operator) What do you think? techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/...

21 May 2025

Went through through @DeepLearningAI's short course on MCP this weekend. Highly recommended! It's led by Elie Schoppik of @AnthropicAI Opens with a high-level overview then details implementation of servers and clients. #MCP #GenAI #SoftwareDevelopment learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/mcp...

portlandai.engineerPortland AI Engineers | Join our growing communityConnect with Portland's AI app development community. Engage in hands-on AI experimentation and build practical applications with peers.

Excited for the unofficial start of summer with the holiday weekend in the US! After that, we'll have our second Portland AI Engineers meetup, this time in partnership with WeWork. Sign up today www.portlandai.engineer/#events

jules.googleJules - An Asynchronous Coding Agent

It's a whirlwind week in AI coding news as Google and Microsoft prepare to challenge OpenAI's Codex.

Google announced early access to what appears to be a Codex clone jules.google/

And lastly, Microsoft is open sourcing the Copilot VSCode copilot extension code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/...

It's a whirlwind week in AI coding news as Google and Microsoft prepare to challenge OpenAI's Codex.

github.blogGitHub Copilot coding agent in public preview - GitHub ChangelogBacklog getting you down? Drowning in technical debt? Delegate issues to Copilot so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Copilot coding agent makes…

GitHub (Microsoft) Improves the genetic abilities of GitHub Copilot github.blog/changelog/2...

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18 May 2025

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