Doge lets a college student take charge of rewriting regulations using AI

Another source told Wired that Sweet is using the tool in other parts of HUD. Wired reviewed a copy of AI's output to a HUD department's comments that have columns showing texts that the AI ​​model needs to adjust, while also including AI's suggestions for changes, essentially proposing a rewrite. The spreadsheet details how many words can be eliminated from each regulation and gives a percentage number to indicate that the regulation is not qualified. It is not clear how to calculate these percentages.

Sweet did not respond to a request for comment about its work. A spokesman for the agency said they did not comment on individuals to clarify Sweet's role in HUD. The University of Chicago confirmed to Wired that Sweet was "off leave from undergraduate college."

It's unclear how to recruit Doge's sweetness, but a public Github account shows that he was working on the issue before even joining Musk's demolition staff.

Wired's Sweet-related "Clsweet" Github account creates an application that tracks and analyzes federal government regulations "show how regulatory burdens are allocated across government agencies." The application was last updated in March 2025, a few weeks before Sweet joined HUD.

A HUD source heard about the role of Sweet in the possible role of amending the agency’s regulations said the work was redundant because the agency had “been passed many years of multi-stakeholder meat making for years before any rules were made”. ” (The law determines how institutions are allowed to formulate regulations and allows judicial oversight of everything the institutions do.)

Another HUD source said Sweet's title seemed meaningless. They noted: “Programmers and quantitative data analysts are two very different things.”

Sweet has almost no online footprint. One of the only quotes to him online is a short biography on the website of East Edge Securities, a investment company Sweet founded in 2023 with two other students from the University of Chicago.

The biography has short details, but claims Sweet has worked with several private equity firms in the past, including Pertento Partners in London, and Tenzing Global Investors in San Francisco. He is also listed on the board of Paragon Global Investments, a student-run hedge fund.

The biography also mentions that "Sweet will join Nexus Point Capital as a private equity summer analyst." The company has headquarters in Hong Kong and Shanghai and describes itself as “an Asian private equity fund with a strategic focus on control opportunities in the Big Chinese market.”

East Edge Securities, Pertento Partners, Tenzing Global Investors, Paragon Global Investments and Nexus Point Capital did not respond to requests for comment.

The only other online accounts associated with Sweet appear to be alternative accounts that use the same username as the GitHub account. The account has not published anything yet and is primarily committed to financial and market-related newsletters. It's also a newsletter for Barri Weiss' Liberty and Marc Andreessen, Silicon Valley Billionaire Investors and group chat enthusiasts, who said he spent a lot of time following the election to advise Trump and his team.

Doge representatives have been at HUD since February, when Wired reported that two of the employees could apply for level access to some of the most critical and sensitive systems within the agency.

Earlier this month, Maxine Waters, the top Democratic representative of the House Financial Services Committee, said Doge “infiltrated housing institutions in our country, stole the congressional funding provided to the community, illegally terminated employees including employees in your area, and accessed confidential data about people living in aid housing, including survivors of sexual assault, including survivors of sexual assault.”