Summary
Elon Musk’s DOGE has hired 21-year-old undergraduate Christopher Sweet to help revise Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations using AI, despite his lack of government experience.
Internal emails describe Sweet’s role as an “AI computer programming quant analyst” tasked with identifying housing rules to relax or eliminate.
Critics say DOGE hires inexperienced tech workers to dismantle agencies under the guise of reform, aligning with Trump’s Project 2025 agenda.
Musk admitted DOGE has made frequent errors and failed to cut promised spending, with federal expenditures already up $220 billion compared to early 2024.
If it wasn’t so destructive, it would be hilarious that he can only hire kids
Get in, loser. We’re vibe coding on government systems.
I don’t know what’s crazier. The fact that they let undergrads write government system or that they believe AI will somehow remediate these issues.
The fact that this government used LLM to generate that insane tariff policy or uses LLM to revoke stay for US citizens tells me how dumb all those people are.
It is also a lesson that being smart is definitively not a prerequisite to be a billionaire and likely quite the opposite.
being smart is definitively not a prerequisite to be a billionaire
Bingo! They just need to be ruthless narcissists with no empathy and money to continue buying their self-worth.
Great plan. Use AI trained on publicly available code to write functions for a completely private codebase to handle use-cases that exist nowhere in the private sector.
HUD housing is already a shithole in most areas. I guarantee nobody on DOGE even understands what HUD does. I live in HUD housing because in on SSDI.
I’m going to be homeless soon, if I’m not disappeared before any changes happen to HUD.
DOGE = not testing! Send to Prod!
I don’t object to younger people writing the regs and laws.
I don’t trust Musk though, he’s not a smart person.
I do, they don’t know what the fuck they are doing.
Inexperience and policy making are like trying to mix oil and water.
These inexperienced tech bros are not writing regs and laws, though. They’re using generative AI to identify existing programs to gut. You are talking about legislative changes to keep up with the times and that’s not what they are doing here, to the detriment of the whole country.
Y’know, every day, I think I realize more and more that the guys doing generative AI search optimization are the real geniuses. If you can bake a biased statement into a gigantic model, I guess it’s pretty difficult to ever get it out specifically.
take advantage of desperate college graduates who need experience you mean.
