Plausible Legibility
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Archive
About
Working in the open is much more valuable than I once thought
It’s time to mark to market a view of mine that has evolved over the past decade.
Dec 29, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
13
3
5
Latest
Top
Discussions
Diagnosing government incapacity: alignment, dysregulation, capability
Now seems like a moment of reflection who work on some form of “improving government.” I see a lot of people wrestling with ideas and theories of change…
Dec 4, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
8
1
Building a real-time state update pipeline for 370,000 SNAP recipients with AI
This is a crosspost of a write-up I did on the Propel blog about how we implemented a pipeline of monitoring the 50 state SNAP agencies’ websites for…
Nov 19, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
4
1
We need to start talking about an AI benefit design
And more specifically: how we design it to actually work
Oct 1, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
9
2
AI Models Are Getting Dramatically Better at Complex Policy Questions
Evidence from SNAP Asset Limits
Sep 17, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
5
3
3
Kernels 02: Claude Compadre (Claude Code for non-coding things)
Also: is curiosity all you need?
Sep 15, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
7
2
3
Kernels #01
Ideas I'm wrestling with (a first edition)
Aug 12, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
6
6
Edge cases as policy reality: using AI to navigate SNAP purchase restrictions
*and* to front load the intrinsic complexity of implementation
Aug 7, 2025
•
Dave Guarino
3
1
See all
Plausible Legibility
Systems (technical and institutional), practical knowledge, and a bit of free play.
Subscribe
Recommendations
Dan Davies - "Back of Mind"
Dan Davies
Plausible Legibility
Subscribe
About
Archive
Recommendations
Sitemap
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts