Dave Guarino
@allafarce
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Getting people through red tape with technology. Now: AI and SNAP. Before https://t.co/6YGx9KRpHZ. “Are you that fax machine guy from Recoding America?"
San Francisco
Joined January 2010
Okay, I've *finally* sent out a newsletter. I'm trying out Substack. Let's see if it works. In this one:.- Personal updates.- A theory of 3 constraints in tech services.- Medi-Cal friction mapping.
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RT @GergelyOrosz: This is a reminder that it’s possible to sponsor @simonw GitHub with $10/mo. He sends an additional monthly wrap-up to th….
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We really need to start having the policy framework conversation around AI agent access to online government services. This is going to happen no matter what. Not having even a basic policy scaffolding that sets norms will create a selection effect for less good actors.
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RT @KumarAGarg: UPDATE: Given passage of the new tax law (and implications for SNAP, Medicaid, and other benefits), under Cassandra Madison….
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RT @jkeatn: in-person conversations at AI hubs or co-working spaces are often deeper, richer, and more thoughtful than what’s available onl….
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You definitely know I occupy a very specific niche when I say to a co-worker, "The U.S. is in a down round on the safety net.".
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This would be a GREAT experiment.
@allafarce related is documenting legacy systems. ex: hospital's bespoke EHR model, only a few hold the tribal knowledge. It's costless to document gigantic codebases now (see cognition's deep wiki). State agencies should be running and publishing for their Medicaid/SNAP systems!.
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Deeply enjoyed Claude Code chastizing my colleague for having the local version of an alpha app talking to the production database. (It was fine, but also funny to see Claude panicking about it.).
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In my newsletter today I sketched out my own AI moonshot, a hyper niche one:. Can we use today’s AI coding capabilities not for greenfield app code generation, but rather for automated characterization test coverage on large legacy systems we’re afraid of changing?
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We are possibly the only team in the world that has generated this specific white board
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We at Propel are hosting a happy hour in San Francisco for people working in or interested in AI and social safety net benefits (eg SNAP, Medicaid). If you’re in the area and are interested let me know!. (Also we just opened up our AI residency and I can share info.).
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I think the argument of "50 states are doing the same thing" is wrong in both substance and focus. - Substance: States as administrators do substantively different things w/ different users. - Focus: the problem is not the efficiency, it's the EFFICACY!.
@allafarce Can you expand on this a bit? I think I understand, but curious to hear more.
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A perhaps heterodox view in my world:. I don't think the 50 states building roughly the same system is a meaningful problem when the programs are administered at that state level. In fact, if anything, AI increases the possibility of getting those systems more contextually.
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An experiment I would very much like to see:. - Take a legacy system everyone is afraid of changing. - Use an agentic AI coding tool to generate high quality characterization test coverage for the legacy code base. - Assess if it provides enough safety to make changes fast now!.
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I endorse this.
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RT @Chris_Said: [Work opportunity] In the wake of OBBB, Propel is opening up a residency program for exceptional mid-career technologists a….
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The most shocking thing of getting even semi-decent at mindfulness meditation is realizing just how damn anxious I have normally been in many contexts!. At the airport and being able to notice it come up is astounding!.
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