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Sahil Lavingia retweeted
The IRS has a mobile app today because of a conversation in December.
@shl had just come out of DOGE, where he wrote publicly about what he found inside the federal government. Most of it was not what people expected. His line was that the government is pretty efficient and could move faster, and that the obstacles were legal and procedural rather than a shortage of talented people.
@SamCorcos recruited him to the IRS. Not as a contractor, not as a temporary detailee. As a career employee, A civil servant.
At a public event that month, @shl asked the room whether the IRS should have a mobile app. Everyone said yes. Obviously yes. The IRS processes roughly 160 million individual returns a year on a system written in 1960s COBOL, and taxpayer-facing technology there has been a decade behind the private sector for most of living memory.
Less than a year later, the app is live.
That is the model working exactly as designed.
Put builders inside the agency, and let them ship. No statement of work. No eighteen-month procurement. No vendor whose incentive is the renewal.
Every agency in the federal government should be operating the same way.
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Sahil Lavingia retweeted
Glad I got to build it alongside @shl & @SamCorcos
Big release for the IRS mobile app! You can now:
1. Check your refund status
2. Mobile payments
3. Access tax records
4. See notices from IRS
5. Update settings to receive less paper
More features to come!
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Sahil Lavingia retweeted
JUST IN: IRS launches its new official mobile app, allowing Americans to check refunds, view balances, & make payments.
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Sahil Lavingia retweeted
Hey @washingtonsun just a heads up, your website fails accessibility testing. You might want to consider using some AI tools. They help a lot.
The Trump administration wants AI to conduct the tests that ensure blind people and those with other disabilities can access the government websites that Americans use to sign up for benefits or find other critical information.
The outcry was immediate.
washingtonsun.com/agencies/a…
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Sahil Lavingia retweeted
Big release for the IRS mobile app! You can now:
1. Check your refund status
2. Mobile payments
3. Access tax records
4. See notices from IRS
5. Update settings to receive less paper
More features to come!
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IRS2Go is now the #IRS app and has expanded features for taxpayers. Sign in to view balances, make a payment, access tax records, view certain notices and letters, and more. See what's available: IRS.gov/app
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Sahil Lavingia retweeted
最近几年我喜欢的一本关于独立开发的书就是 Gumrod 的创始人的《The Minimalist Entrepreneur》，中文版好像叫什么小而美，这本书里面的故事和方法论都非常真实和接地气，我看过几遍也按照这里面的流程实践了自己自由职业后的发展路径。
前几天看到作者居然将这本书做成 skills 了, github.com/slavingia/skills
有一系列的 skills 分成了几个常见的场景和步骤，我觉得还是很实用的，大家假如想做产品和个人品牌的可以好好看看。
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My experience working as a software engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs, on behalf of DOGE.
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Claude was like "holy fuck"
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
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