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2026

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
The Pipeline That Wrote This Post

An on-device transcriber that discards audio and keeps only text, feeding a daily agent that mines conversations for ideas worth writing about.

ryder · 2026-07-08 · 4 min read · ai, engineering, workflow, meta
Give the Agent a Loss Function

Prompting an agent without a measurable target fails the way training a model without a loss function does, plus a pattern for swarms of subagents.

ryder · 2026-07-04 · 5 min read · ai, agentic-workflow, engineering
Translate the Meaning, Not the Words

Frontier models have memorized Scripture so well that hiding the source text doesn't stop them reciting it, which changes what 'source' should mean.

ryder · 2026-07-03 · 6 min read · translation, ai, methodology, nlp
Authorization Is Local

Trust in a Bible translation isn't a technical property. It's a person who signs their name to it, and who that person is changes by community.

ryder · 2026-07-01 · 5 min read · translation, bible, trust, decentralization
I Don't Write Code Anymore

A shift from writing code to verifying it raised a harder question a week later: how do you onboard a human into a workflow built for agents?

ryder · 2026-07-01 · 5 min read · ai, engineering, agentic-workflow, reflection