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The establishment of Elon Musk’s Government Efficiency Department (Doge) was based on a recruitment campaign carried out, in part, by young software engineers that covers the online chat groups and discord servers, according to three Chat sources and records reviewed by Wired. . Some of the engineers are associated with the Palantir Data Analysis firm or its co -founder and Chair of Directors and Almizcle ally, Peter Thiel.
As Doge employees, many of them young and with little or no government experience, contain access to confidential data in a dozen government agencies, this is the first look at some of the networks of which the agency has already recruited who already Confident to enlist the talent.
In online chat groups linked to Palantir students and Spacex’s interns, the Musk space company, as well as in a discord server associated with an artificial military intelligence program, the engineers said they were looking for people willing to spend six Months in Washington, Federal DC Federal The Expenditure, which represents around a quarter of the Gross Domestic Product of the USA, per third.
Anthony Joncso, one of the three engineers associated with the recruitment effort, is a former Palantir employee. According to the sources, Joncso said he was recruited for Dogs by Steve Davis, the president of the boring company and lieutenant of an musk to whom Bloomberg reported In December it was the main recruitment of Doge.
Palantir, Jancso and Davis did not immediately respond to comments requests. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Joncso’s curriculum lists him as a 2021 graduate from University College in London and has been a software engineer “deployed” in Palantir between December 2021 and May 2023. JANCSO is better known to lead a project called Accelerate SF, whose Objective is to take advantage of in the public sector. In a 2023 story about a next Hackathon, Venturebeat He informed that Accelerate had received support from companies such as OpenAi and Anthrope. In 2024, the adventure become known as Acceleratex. Pretending to offer “a modern operating system for the government”, acceleratex claims “Transforms government infrastructure with automation and software with AI, delivered in days.”
On November 26, 2024, in a message reviewed by Wired, a person who uses a screen name that includes the name Anthony and the same mango that Jancso uses in his X account published on a discord server associated with the GENERATIVE CHALLENGE OF SPACE FORCE—A “eight-week combination of AI and Hack-A-Thon accident course for problems resolving more than 350 participants,” according to their website.
“Help the government’s efficiency team department find Hardcore engineers,” says the message. “Send your github/LinkedIn to @Doge in X and its handling of X in DM if you are interested or meet someone who is, could help you take them to the pipe.”
In early December, in another message reviewed by Wired, a person who uses the same mango published in a chat group for Palantir students.
“Hello everyone,” said the message. “I am helping Elon’s team to find technological talent for the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) in the new administrator. This is a historical opportunity to build an efficient government and reduce the federal budget by 1/3. If you are interested in playing a role in this mission, communicate in the next few days. “
