I was tired of the AI news loop.
Every morning the same thing: open Twitter, get hit with 40 takes about the same model release, half of them wrong, three of them screenshots of the other half. By the time I figured out what actually shipped, I had lost an hour and gained nothing.
So I built a thing. Not as a startup. Not with a roadmap deck. Just as a thing I wanted to exist.
The rule is simple: it tracks model launches, repos, papers, and tools, and it strips out the hot takes. No engagement bait. No "this changes everything" framing. Just what shipped, what it does, and where to find it.
It's also boring on purpose.
There's no algorithmic feed. No personalization. No tracking. You filter by category — models, repos, papers — and that's about it. If you check it once a day for two minutes, it does its job. If you don't check it, nothing bad happens. I think this is a feature.
A few things I learned building it:
The hard part isn't ingestion. Pulling sources is trivial. The hard part is dedup — the same release gets re-announced four ways across a week, and a naive feed turns into noise fast. Most of my time went into clustering near-duplicates and deciding which version of the story is the canonical one.
LLMs are decent summarizers and terrible editors. They will happily turn "v0.3 patch release" into "a revolutionary breakthrough." You have to constrain them hard, and even then you need rules outside the model to catch hype words.
A digest is a stance, not a feature. Every time I add something I'm saying "this is worth your two minutes." That's an editorial decision dressed up as a pipeline. Pretending otherwise is how aggregators end up as slop.
I'm not trying to grow it into a media company. It runs on a small server, it costs me less than a coffee subscription, and the people who use it tend to be other engineers who also got tired of the loop. That's a fine size.
If this resonates, the feed lives here: ai-tldr.dev/?cat=model. No signup. No newsletter pop-up. I'm not going to email you.
That's mostly the point.