Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026My approach to coding agents rn is to review all proposed changes. Sometimes I feel like Jerry with the carpenter who couldn't make a decision by himself, and feel the urge to completely delegate. But then I remember his kitchen turned out bad, while George, who stuck it out, got a great desk. 010
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I noticed that if you visit a website from the Google Search results, then go back to the the results, you are now given the option to "ask more" about the website. If you click, you are re-directed to a Gemini conversation prompted with the website URL. 100
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026In light of these stories, I wonder if AI will reduce "access to justice," either because courts will sanction AI-assisted litigants with fees or vexatious designations. 100
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026My dad already gets so (rightfully) worked up whenever we pass the Reagan statute at DCA. Re-naming Dulles to Trump has the potential to kill him. 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Govt rushing to adopt AI (nascent and untested) while failing to implement public key infrastructure (mature and battle-hardened) is a puzzle. Perhaps a sign of govt tech/industrial policy shifting from bureaucracy to move fast; break things. 110
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025There's a saying about how power clouds judgment: the higher you go, the thinner the air. But it's a little on the nose for the president to start saying even crazier things once 35,000 feet in the air. 010
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...nytimes.comBear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears 010
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Email sent to UChicago PSD students. An international student was detained and then released by federal immigration officers in Hyde Park. 042
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Stress-maxxing my flight by watching Uncut Gems while the guy next to me watches The Hurt Locker 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025This figure is kind of side result but is still p noteworthy. I see a lot of claims about opinion length changing over time but (to my knowledge) no one has actually ran the numbers. 010
Reposted by Kyle MacMillanMourad Heddaya @mheddaya.bsky.social · 01/05/2025🧑⚖️How well can LLMs summarize complex legal documents? And can we use LLMs to evaluate? Excited to be in Albuquerque presenting our paper this afternoon at @naaclmeeting 2025! 22313
Reposted by Kyle MacMillanMourad Heddaya @mheddaya.bsky.social · 01/05/2025I'll be presenting this work at 2pm and will be around until Sunday. Please reach out if you're interested in this line of work - would love to connect in person or virtually! Thank you to my great collaborators @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social , Anup Malani, Hongyuan Mei, and @chenhaotan.bsky.social 131
Reposted by Kyle MacMillanchenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Although I cannot make #NAACL2025, @chicagohai.bsky.social will be there. Please say hi! @chachachen.bsky.social GPT ❌ x-rays (Friday 9-10:30) @mheddaya.bsky.social CaseSumm and LLM 🧑⚖️ (Thursday 2-3:30) @haokunliu.bsky.social @qiaoyu-rosa.bsky.social hypothesis generation 🔬 (Saturday at 4pm) 0167
Reposted by Kyle MacMillanDanielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Brilliant (as always) piece by @bridgetfahey.bsky.social on why gov’t control over data is of constitutional moment. Yes it implicates societal and individual privacy concerns but also structural, constitutional grabs of power. Brava. Read www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comMusk’s Madisonian Insight—And Its Troubling ConsequencesThe Department of Government Efficiency’s seizure of government databases is not just an act of bureaucratic reorganization. It is an act of constitutional restructuring. 086
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025House Republicans defunding the police (as well as schools and emergency services) would be a bigger story if there weren't so much other craziness going on. 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Walking into majority-undergrad spaces on campus and seeing every third screen with chatgpt open is stunning. Can't imagine the paranoia I'd feel grading. 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025To be clear, this is a congressman from Oklahoma blocking DC from spending over $1 billion of local (not even federal!) funding. Such a blatant attack on our principles of self-governance. If Congress tried this anywhere else there would be riots. 030
Reposted by Kyle MacMillanMartin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025OK, I'm starting to get details on what it would mean for D.C. to revert to FY24 spending levels now that we are halfway through FY25. D.C. charter schools would have to cut $165 million. DCPS, $183 million. D.C. Fire, $42 million. MPD, $67 million. 12512
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Tonight on SNF: Daniel(s) in the Lions' Den 010
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I don't use GenAI much but it saved me a ton of time parsing raw HTML today. Wrote briefly:people.cs.uchicago.eduHTML Parsing with GPT-4o -GenAI to the rescue 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Beyond time for courts / reporters to start numbering by paragraph instead of page. Makes referencing way more consistent. Canada already does this! 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Reading Marbury for the 3rd time in law school is making me appreciate how much I've learned since the first go round. 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Terence Tao posted today about paper rejections. He shared this funny story: 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 29/12/2024We didn't look at exactly the same years but observed a similar trend---just a staggering increase in majority opinion word count since the 1960s. (Plot shows 5 yr moving avg 1815-2019) 010
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024College would have been more fun if people had the good sense to play (the objectively better) When You Were Young instead of Mr.Brightside 000
Kyle MacMillan @kyle-macmillan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Unless stress tests are comprehensive, you probably don't want complete transparency because banks might "overfit" to the tests.wsj.comBanks Sue Federal Reserve Over ‘Lack of Transparency’ in Stress TestingThe Fed on Monday said it planned to overhaul the stress-test regime for banks and planned to seek public comment on planned changes. 000