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.
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.
DOGE = not testing! Send to Prod!
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.
Yeah, I wasn’t able to find any waste, fraud, or abuse, and rather than saving money like we promised, it turns out we’re spending more money. Like a lot more. Like instead of saving a trillion dollars how I said we would, we’ve spent over two hundred billion more than last year in just a few months. Oh, and you know how we said your taxes would go down? Funny thing, they’re actually going to go up - for you I mean, mine will weirdly go down still. And my companies will also do pretty well because of the government subsidies and all that. Oh, and it’s pretty convenient that all of those investigations into my businesses randomly got dropped. Coincidental those investigations were under the same agencies where we imagined we’d find the most waste, fraud, and abuse. Good thing shutting them down without the authority to do so was much easier than actually proving any wrongdoing took place. Anyway, good luck getting a job if you’re one of the many experienced government employees I fired. I know things are unusually rough right now, for some reason. Lots of people attacking the United States with bad trade deals out of nowhere, like how Ukraine attacked Russia so randomly. Good thing we’re diverting so much money from those pointless social safety nets (I mean, they’ve never helped me) to put it toward additional warfare. That’ll show all those countries who refuse to bend the knee. Oh, are you still here? Shouldn’t you be working long hours for a slave wage somewhere?
Elon is really into young dudes for some reason.
My former micro-managing manager for some reason only ended up hiring people younger than him, even if the older people trying out were just as/more competent.
We felt it was his insecurities to feel like “the oldest” or most competent
Epstein probably woulve said something about him if he still alive, Ghislaine will know though, since she is epstein 2nd in command.
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.
whose nephew is he
take advantage of desperate college graduates who need experience you mean.
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.
So fucking stupid.
I don’t object to younger people writing the regs and laws.
I don’t trust Musk though, he’s not a smart person.
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.
I do, they don’t know what the fuck they are doing.
Inexperience and policy making are like trying to mix oil and water.
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.
