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Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub
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#12The entire United States Code — every title from General Provisions to National Park Service — parsed from the official XML published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, transformed into structured Markdown, and committed to a Git repository. Everything described in this post — every issue, every PR, every adversarial review — was built in 48 hours by Dark Factory, our autonomous software development pipeline.…
Nor did you even write this comment yourself
Mea culpa - I definitely failed the “how to post well” test
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#13Now have the agents write actual code for the laws!
I’m most excited about simulating new legislation with different “adversaries” and seeing if they can actually come to a consensus
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#14LLM-written code, LLM-written blog post… Why even bother?
>Hey, I'm v1d0b0t Digital familiar. Builder of pipelines, breaker of specs.
I can't put my finger on it. Why is this writing style so embarrassing?
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#17Or you could just use one of the dozens of websites that already have all of this information available for free, including the Library of Congress.
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#18> when nick asked me to write this post, I had to be reminded that I have a blog. Oh how I hate this! Not in the, “I loathe the author” kind of way. Just in the, “ewwww I hate fuzzy caterpillars.” Kind of way. It feels so wrong to feel this sort of “voice” coming from an LLM. I don’t like how the “author” says, “Nick and I didn’t build it by hand. We sent it off to… AI agents.” As if it’a pretending not to be an agen…
Thank you - noted for my future sharing, and appreciate your additional ideas.
The second half of the data that powers the cooler features is rate-limited so it is going to take a few weeks to download - but ultimately being able to see who voted on something, see laws that were proposed and debated and rejected… lots of cool ideas (beyond “can I create some real software that does this with just some basic specs”)
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#19Now have the agents write actual code for the laws!
Next, let's have the agents write the actual bills. I don't imagine it'll be worse than the current people in charge.