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Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Jan 1

A thread of books I finish in 2025

Book 1

Lesson:

The problems of the future will be solved by people who are young today observing issues and deciding to invent solutions.

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Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · 16h

Written pre-AI. Pure human slop

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Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · 4d

tbh I love Waffles

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · 21d

Because the point of the article is the new information about the world it conveys, not the exact wording used

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · 23d

diminishing returns to AI scale are an illusion

Economic value comes from completing long projects, not single questions. And accuracy drives how long a project AI does: small gains compound exponentially!

Reasoners are much more accurate, with big impacts

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09677

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Aug 22

Book 6

Lesson:

The basic paradigm of design is to coax effects from the world by identifying and manipulating its extant tendencies, rather than imposing form on it.

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Aug 22

(They’re fighting over it because of the unprecedented adoption by normal people)

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Aug 21

I don’t think the AI cycle is coming to a stop just yet

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Aug 14

Ehhh I think you just want to murder people who make new things

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Jun 27

Also I’ve been told I should share that Claude and I worked on this on the road yesterday

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Jun 27

One can imagine a world where every iOS app developer has their own slightly different version of Apple's model

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Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Jun 27

New blog post on my experiments with Apple's new foundation model

I tried to make Apple's lil' model act like Golden Gate Claude collisions.substack.com/p/fine-tunin...

Fine-Tuning Apple's New Foundation Model

Building a Golden Gate-Obsessed AI Assistant

collisions.substack.com

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · Jun 4

another drop in the bucket, bit by bit, the collective unconscious updates it's model of the world and the future

github.com/cloudflare/w...

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Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 23

Built an app for funzies today

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 23

Like Replit, Glitch (UGC app hosting and remixing) was seemingly in the perfect position for an explosion of amateur code

But radicalized against the tech from the top down

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 23

hmm, one has to wonder how this might have played out if they embraced AI codegen

Anil on AI in 2023 and 2025

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 22

They were well ahead of the competition well ahead of this presidency

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 21

"the way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?"

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 19

antinatalism, or: “what if my depression could be an ideology?”

Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · May 19

NEW: Reddit banned an anti-natalist group after the Palm Springs explosion

Archived posts in the group showed members discussing how to accelerate the end of society.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

Reddit bans an anti-natalist group after Palm Springs explosion

The community, r/Efilism, is devoted to a philosophy mentioned on a website published before Saturday's bomb blast.

www.nbcnews.com

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 19

Jobs program for James Earl Jones impersonators. Uber or DoorDash but for pretending to be Darth Vader in a game of Fortnite

Techmeme @techmeme.com · May 19

SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 19

Picked up a few comic books for my birthday last week

Hickman's Secret Wars was pretty solid, excited for the MCU movie take on it in a few years

But WOW Brian Michael Bendis's Daredevil run is so so good, already like 40%+ through the omnibus collection

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · May 9

Happy Speed Racer day!

I know we'll be celebrating this evening

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Mar 21

The harm section on page 15 is pretty unconvincing. Strongest point is that Meta could have paid them, but there’s not a solid case that the actual download/training harmed authors

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Mar 21

How? People aren’t recreating their novels just because the models were trained on them?

Kyle Russell @kylebrussell.bsky.social · Feb 21

There’s a lot of media in my backlog