In February 2025, Elon Musk directed all federal workers to distill the preceding week's tasks and accomplishments into five sentences. While originally claimed to be a "pulse check," just testing whether Feds had "two neurons [to rub together]," Musk later recanted in a now deleted tweet, stating the entries would indeed be ingested into an AI system. AI does many things well, but attempting to derive valuation from unstructured input data, composed of foreign (government-laden) jargon, without a suitable language bank is not among them. This site provides a first pass at what an AI system might be evaluating; or, more aptly, it may expose just how weak AI is at attempting to accomplish this, and encourage its users to begin thinking about their language as a tool rather than a one-way conversation.
Pulling from primary sources where possible, and intuiting from executive leadership comms what additional language may be helpful, a prompt was constructed aiming to decompose these priorities and objectives into computer-friendly language, and a nonpersistent OpenAI ChatGPT4o instance drives the responses.
(Via NPR)
1. Southwest Border Activities
2. Combating Transnational Criminal Organizations in the Western Hemisphere
3. Audit
4. Nuclear Modernization (including NC3)
5. Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs)
6. Virginia-class Submarines
7. Executable Surface Ships
8. Homeland Missile Defense
9. One-Way Attack/Autonomous Systems
10. Counter-small UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) Initiatives
11. Priority Critical Cybersecurity
12. Munitions
13. Core Readiness, including full DRT (training) funding
14. Munitions and Energetics Organic Industrial Bases
15. Executable INDOPACOM (India Pacific Command) MILCON (military construction)
16. Combatant Command support agency funding for INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM, (Northern Command), SPACECOM, (Space Command) STRATCOM, (Strategic Command) CYBERCOM, (Cyber Command) and TRANSCOM (Transportation Command)
17. Medical Private-Sector Care
(Via Hegseth Twitter: Looking forward to working with you on this @elonmusk. Need to cut the fat (HQ) and grow the muscle (warfighters). [#PentagonAudit])
(Via @SollenbergerRC [mirror])
Parameter 1: Employee union status
Parameter 2: Full-time status
Parameter 3: Location
Parameter 4: “Satisfaction” rating (out of 5)
Parameter 5: Statutorily mandated Y/N
Parameter 6: Small Business Administration Y/N
Parameter 7: Org Chart Taxonomy and logical grouping
(Via Title 10 Lookup) This will be highly dependent on agency and domain. The default prompt is a DOD amalgam, which looks something like this: