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 that “show how regulatory burdens are distributed among 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 “passed many years of multi-stakeholder meat making for years before any rules were made” under the Administrative Procedure Act. (This law provides for how institutions are allowed to make regulations and allow 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 a brief detail, 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, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said, “Infiltrating housing agencies in our country, stealing congressional funds provided to communities, illegally terminate employees, including in your area, and accessing confidential data about people living in assisted housing, including survivors of sex crimes.”
