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Which is one of the many ways in which the system is broken.





It's almost funny that small code reviews are preferred in software engineering (https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/smal...), but in Congress we have these stupid "big beautiful bill(s)" that are sometimes thousand pages long, and sometimes only released hours before a formal vote. Almost like these bills are intended to fool constituents, cripple opponents' plans, and created just in the hope that they get passed and signed into law without anyone looking carefully.

Code reviews for 10 lines of code: 100 suggestions

Code reviews for 1000 lines of code: LGTM

Omnibus bill packages get the same LGTM treatment where legislators don’t even read the whole thing.


The short timeline actually makes this an excellent opportunity for LLM analysis if you have a model which could digest the entire bill without reaching token limits.



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