Archive - Altered Craft

Weekly AI review: Building Text-to-SQL Applications with OpenAI and FastAPI

PLUS - The Programmer Identity Crisis in AI Era

Oct 27 •

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.

Oct 24 •

Weekly review: Spec-Driven Development Tools: Promise vs Reality

PLUS - Claude Haiku 4.5: Frontier Performance at Budget Pricing

Oct 20 •

Mapping AI Agent Adoption Across 217,000 GitHub Repositories

Which AI agents are developers actually using?

Oct 16 •

Weekly AI Review: OpenAI AgentKit, Complete Agent Development Suite

PLUS - Context Management Boosts Agent Performance 39%

Oct 13 •

Engineering AI Generated Artifacts for Human Review

When AI writes at 10x speed, your review process becomes the bottleneck

Oct 10 •

Weekly AI Review: Claude Sonnet 4.5 advances AI Coding and Agent Development

PLUS - Karpathy Explores Animals vs Ghosts in AI Development

Oct 6 •

The Context Trap: When Detailed Specs Overwhelm AI Assistants

Four AIs, one todo app, and the importance of bounded contexts

Oct 3 •

The next evolution of Altered Craft

Paid tier (early adopter discount enclosed)

Oct 1 •

September 2025

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