Sam Keen
@samkeen.bsky.social
Software developer : Python, AWS tech, Building Gen AI projects. www.linkedin.com/in/samkeen Weekly AI newsletter for developers: Alteredcraft.com
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...
Weekly Review: The Great Divide
Welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers, and thank you for keeping this a Monday ritual.
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thanks Rick, really looking fwd to getting this group rolling!
Rick Turoczy@turoczy.bsky.social · last mo.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...
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...
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
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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...
The Anchored Interview Pattern
How to build agent skills that pull intent out of your head, plus a skill that builds them for you
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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...
A Claw-Lite That Runs on Your Claude Code Subscription
OpenClaw got cut off. Here's what I've been running instead.
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Doing some Claude Code One Shot testing today. I'll let y'all know how it goes... 🍿
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
het @appscout.bsky.social you should add the 2026 copywright in the footer
@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
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...
2025 Leaps, 2026 Plans
No deep dive this week.
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Some thoughts towards adapting to an AI involved software development workflow open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...
Developers, AI Changed Everything. No, You're Not Doomed
Why the best developers are getting better, not obsolete
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Latest post from Altered Craft. Quick Skills guide for those using Claude Code open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...
Claude Skills: Your Workflows, Encoded Once, Applied Intelligently
Progressive disclosure for your workflows: lightweight markdown files that load just-in-time, saving context and time.
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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" 🤔
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...
Mapping AI Agent Adoption Across 217,000 GitHub Repositories
Which AI agents are developers actually using?
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☝️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.
This weeks AI review for developers is out Agent kit plus much more open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...
Weekly AI Review: OpenAI AgentKit, Complete Agent Development Suite
PLUS - Context Management Boosts Agent Performance 39%
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Latest post from my newsletter Levering AI itself to help adapt to the disruption of AI in software development open.substack.com/pub/alteredc...
Engineering AI Generated Artifacts for Human Review
When AI writes at 10x speed, your review process becomes the bottleneck
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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. """
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
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...
AI Engineer
Talks, workshops, events, and training for AI Engineers.
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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!
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
Peer Programming with LLMs, For Senior+ Engineers
This article contains a collection of resources for senior (or staff+) engineers exploring the use of LLM for collaborative programming.
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What a week for generative AI. With conferences from Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic
"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.
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/...
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees | TechCrunch
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. 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.
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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...
