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

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...

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

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

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

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...

☝️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...

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

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...

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

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/...

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...

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

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

It was an active week in AI. Just finished crafting the latest edition of DevThink.AI. Sign up today to get a weekly curated list of GenAI tutorials, tools, and news for the software developer.

Considering the personal Spotify AI policy: "Purchase of personal software only approved if I can show that it is not feasible to code it myself (with an AI assistant)" I need a social posting aid, could a build a bare bones system that meets my needs 🤔 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/shop...

—Firsts— Was just on a video call which had more AI bots in attendance than humans

Kalama, odd spot along I5. River, big boats, and sea lions

Are all pineapple upside down cakes the result of buying crushed pineapple versus cored by mistake or is that just me?

Getting close to the culmination of about 8 months of nights and weekends...

Here we go, fun habit booster, start your trek to “Mt Fire”

When the pricing page does not actually list pricing, rather just a book a demo link; "There be dragons" www.vellum.ai/pricing

Who'd have thought we'd look back at these as opulent.

Latest edition of the DevThink.AI newsletter is out: 🔧 Free Hugging Face AI Agents course 🛠️ Zed’s open-source model 📈 Anthropic’s data on how devs actually use AI 🧠 Bret Taylor: “AI leadership must evolve” and much more No hype, just value. Dive in ➡️ devthink.ai/p/hugging-fa... #AIEngineer

Hello fellow developers this weeks edition of DevThink.ai delivers a great collection of insights, from building resilient AI agents to wielding open-source tools. Sign up so you don't miss a weekly edition devthink.ai/p/gpt-resear...

At least I’m comforted in the fact that I personally did not vote for Elon…

Remember when mac os updates took a minute or two at most, 15 min on this one…

If for any reason you find yourself in Chico, CA, make some time for Stoble caffe. Great coffee and brunch, amazing space.

My wife took it upon herself to make a pastry for a "decently well known" British baking show :) So far so good; ready, set Bake!! Happy holidays everyone

If you enjoy geeking out on video games, I highly recommend @anyaustin.bsky.social For instance, ever wandered where all those rivers end up in Skyrim 🤔 #BureauOfLaborStatistics

So my company (to remain unnamed) has decided I need to be in the office five days a week, starting Jan 2nd. Plan to make the best of it, maybe hit up some more Portland tech meetups since I’ll “be in the area” #RTO #TechMeetups

I continue to appreciate these cookbooks from Mistral. Quick yet useful examples. Notebooks are a great format. #LLM #MistralAI github.com/mistralai/co...

Just a quick reminder before you go into full on holiday break mode. A bunch of orgs are collaborating to bring together the Portland startup community on Jan 14. You should come. #pdx #portland #startups www.meetup.com/pie-portland...

I just submitted my PyCon US 2025 talk proposal 🐍 You should do the same! Due date is Dec 19th #Python #Pycon2025 us.pycon.org/2025/

~2 days, plenty to time to get you proposals in!

Apologies for the cat pics, but honestly, the "Cattitude" in the "Bestitude" Pictured; Grace (box) and Mia

Found this very well put together tutorial on leveraging Postgres and the pgvector extension to build a "Retrieval Augmented Generation" (RAG) based Star Trek knowledge base. All running locally #LLM #RAG www.crunchydata.com/blog/smarter...

Working from the “mothership“ this week.

anyone else getting these requests from your data science teams; "We need to devolve the formatting of our documentation so it is more easily digestible for LLMs" I'm fine with this, I prefer minimal formatting, still found it interesting 🤔 #GenAI #LLM #RAG

New edition of DevThink.AI is out Perfect for AI-enthusiast developers curious about the latest in generative AI. Weekly, I cover GenAI tools, tutorials, and news tailored for software devs. Check it out: devthink.ai/p/aisuite-a-... #Newsletter #AI #SoftwareDevelopers

I’m traveling for work next week. It been a while, over two years I think. Looking forward to meet some coworkers IRL

Most popular Taco Bell ever

This looks fun. I've completed a few of these free ~1hr tutorials with @deeplearningai.bsky.social I really like there side by side: | Video || Notebook| presentation. You can learn so much in just an hour with these courses. Highly recommended! #AIGaming www.deeplearning.ai/short-course...