> 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 agent.

Regardless, very fun project. Thanks for sharing. And don’t let my hate stop your experiments.

Feature request—add some context to each git commit message. What prompted the law to be drafted? What was said to gain support? What was debated? Committee reports? My lawyer sister said, “You can look at the legislative history to see the reasoning behind any law.” Can that get added to the commit messages?

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”)