I’m working on a longer form post about using AI in congressional affairs. It’s not done but it’s close.

In other news I got the open weight chat gpt model going on my Mac with ollama. If you have a machine with 32gb ram it works pretty good.

I’m so stoked this works. Bang on, the first time, correct.

I did it! I figured out how to write a legislative analysis AI prompt to get the AI to return the result I wanted.

It turns out I had not properly understood the memory limitation. I adjusted my prompt & bingo it found every reference I was looking for, and correctly summarized them.

I picked up my AI project again. I started testing google gemini deep research. The results were not bad. With that said it feels like chat gpt is just better at understanding my prompts. Anyway, not a ton more to report.

Next project: Python scripting api calls to do some bill tracking on Congress.gov - they have a nice api library.

AI has to be so good that I don't need to check it's work. But I have not yet identified a single work task where that isn't true. Perhaps it can order me an uber, but, like this week when I needed to analyze a 1500 page bill it's not cool for the AI to tell me to read the bill.

After seeing @emilyliu.me 's post this morning about using Bluesky for the comments section on her site, I had to try it.

Here's a writeup on how to do it, with everything you need to set it up yourself in five minutes.

Leave a comment on this post to test it out!

www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...

President-elect Trump is keeping the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort secret, in a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest groups, businesses or wealthy people are helping launch his second term.

@taskmaster.tv I am in charge of a component of my team’s virtual holiday party, where I get to set a crafting task and then judge people, got any fun ideas?