「法律をgit commitせよ」米国法をGitHubで公開・管理する試みがエンジニア的に胸熱すぎる

米国の連邦法（United States Code）をGitHub上で管理し、法律の改正履歴をコミットとして記録していくという非常にユニークな試みです。Gitの強力なバージョン管理機能を法的手続きに応用することで、いつ・何が変わったのかをエンジニアにおなじみの『diff』で確認できるのが最大の特徴。エンジニアリングと法律が融合した、非常に興味深いプロジェクトです。

This is awesome… the code of federal regulations would be a fantastic next project.

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?

LLM-written code, LLM-written blog post…

Why even bother?