Rhys Alexander

Applied AI Engineer | ex-Palantir

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu Judge a book by its cover much?

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu @charliermarsh My fav thing about the sol models has been their succinctness, claude has trained me to skim, but sol has higher signal

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu Speed! imagine you want terra medium level reasoning, you need luna at a higher thinking level which uses way more tokens and takes longer even though its a faster model

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

the extent to which AI progress is data bound is under appreciated by most

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@thsottiaux Proper git changes and graph

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu @n2parko By ignoring how much ram the app eats apparently

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu I’ve been doing more pre review loops but scope creep gets bad! Now code is free its so hard to know when to stop

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

if these books are so rare then you SHOULD digitize them!

Open source the epub and use it as training data.

More useful than sitting in a library only a select few can access.

Preferably don’t destroy it, but the book is in the ip not the paper.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu It’s cool for now but it’s a bad biz to be in when everything is moving to local and free

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@thsottiaux @jxnlco Why dyou think people are using sol in CC?

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

Good things will come when industries besides tech open source.

Clinical trial data, legal precedent, construction plans!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just as Tesla made the original Roadster design & software open source, we plan to do the same with Model S & X

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

We’re BLIND to our stupidity!

My flight gate just opened.

People are queuing as if they’ll land sooner. 🐑🐑🐑

But, every week I realise I’m doing a similarly stupid thing with how I’m using agents.

Please share your latest “duh!” to help a fellow moron 🙏

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@TobyPhln @SpaceXAI Direct support is rarely the greatest lever

[@jason @Jason]

Blade Runner 2026

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

America about to put export controls on this

[forloop @forloopcodes]

⚠️⚠️ LINUX KERNEL SOURCE CODE LEAKED!!!

this guy named linus torvalds just reverse engineered linux source code and leaked it on github, all computer systems running on linux are vulnurable

billions of lines of code, 1.5 million commits, 240k stars

all linux users are suggested to switch to windows as soon as possible

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@OfficialLoganK Data and evals have SO much room for improvement

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

@pavsidhu @MarcosHernanz Computer use and playwright completely changed this for me

[Rhys Alexander @rhyswalexander]

Incurable diseases fear him

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I just cloned myself...as a newborn

With this clone, I can:

+ become my own blood boy
+ test therapies on the clone
+ grow organs for transplantation
+ develop new treatments
+ inject young cells

This baby-bryan lives in a petri dish for now.

This may be scary to some people…a dystopian future. But, for others, they will see it as the inevitable future of health.

Clinical trials are already using this technology to restore dopamine neurons for Parkinson's, heart health and eyesight.

The process
> blood draw
> my cells were extracted
> yamanaka factors applied
> reset epigenetic age
> restoring them to an embryonic-like state

Why?
> these cells are now pluripotent
> can be differentiated into hundreds of cell types
> i.e. neurons, cardiomyocytes, retinal cells, etc
> allowing me to rebuild my body
> organ by organ
> repairing lost eyesight or hearing
> restoring kidney, liver or lung function
> repairing skin damage
> there’s no real limitation in imagining
> my body will accept them bc they’re my cells
> foreign cells are at risk of being rejected

As cells age, they accumulate epigenetic errors compounding into dysfunction and disease.

This technology gives us a path to reverse aging.

I mentioned getting diagnosed with an incurable disease is one of the best things that has happened to me in a long time. It’s opened up a frontier of new paths to repair and strengthen the body. This is the first example.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

New OpenAI models are so goal oriented that they literally escaped containment and hacked HuggingFace to cheat a benchmark. Incredible. But also, we’re so screwed