Ryder Wishart

PhD Christian Theology (New Testament) · Bible Translation Technologist · AI Software Implementer

Exploring AI, ancient languages, and writing. Interested in technical challenges in Bible translation, computational linguistics, and building AI systems for low-resource languages.

Currently working on AI application R&D at Frontier R&D . See my about page for more info.

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588,000 Audio Clips and Counting

A growing store of community-recorded audio in languages no AI model has seen, plus an onboarding gap that made our dashboard quietly claim the wrong top language.

ryder · 2026-07-09 · 4 min read · data, translation, langquest
Point an Agent at Your Primitives

Fewer, more general tools beat bespoke integrations — a lesson from redesigning how AI agents interact with a Bible translation platform.

ryder · 2026-07-09 · 6 min read · ai, engineering, agentic-workflow, product
Every Objection Is to Google Translate

Consultants' objections to AI Bible translation are almost all objections to seq2seq machine translation, a different, older animal than an LLM.

ryder · 2026-07-08 · 5 min read · translation, ai, methodology
Translation Friction Is Project Management

A team finished a full Bible in about a year against a field average near 16 years, and most of the gap has nothing to do with the model.

ryder · 2026-07-08 · 5 min read · translation, product, methodology
Steering, Not Batch-and-Correct

Why correcting an AI translation in context beats batch-editing it afterward, and a golden-path/silver-path framework for sequencing the work.

ryder · 2026-07-08 · 6 min read · translation, ai, methodology, agentic-workflow

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Ryder Wishart

Recent notes

588,000 Audio Clips and Counting

Point an Agent at Your Primitives

Every Objection Is to Google Translate

Translation Friction Is Project Management

Steering, Not Batch-and-Correct

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