
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
The creation of the so-called government efficiency of Elon Mask (DOGE) was based on a staffing campaign partially conducted by young programmers, inflated in online groups and discord servers, in accordance with the three sources and chat magazines considered according to wire data. The field some of the engineers are associated with the Palantir data analytics company or its co -founder and chairman of the board of directors – and the Musk – Peter Thiel ally.
Like DOGE employees – many of them, young and practically no government experience in order to gain access to confidential data for approximately a dozen government institutions, is the first glance at some networks from which the agency recruited, and who they supposed to attract talent.
In the online groups of chat related to Palantir graduates and SpaceX trainees, the Musk space company, as well as on the Discord server, associated with the military artificial intelligence program, engineers said people who want to spend six months in Washington, the district of Colombia. Expenses that amount to about a quarter of the gross domestic product of the United States are a third.
Anthony Yankso, one of the three engineers associated with the efforts in the staff of the staff, is a former employee of Palantir. According to the sources, Jancso said that he was hired in Doge by Steve Davis, the president of a boring company and musk lieutenant, whom Bloomberg reported in December, was a leading set of DOGE.
Palantir, Jancso and Davis did not immediately respond to comments. The White House did not immediately respond to a request about the comment.
In the Jancso resume, he lists it as a graduate of the University College in London of 2021 and was a “forward detailed” engineer -programmer in a palatir from December 2021 to May 2023. Jancso is most famous for led a project called Accelerate SF, which is aimed at using artificial art in the public sector. In 2023, the subsequent Hakaton Venturebeat announced that Accelerate received support from companies, including Openai and Anpropic. In 2024, the company became known as Acceleratex. Suggesting to propose a “modern OS for the Government”, ACCELERATEX claims that “transforms the state infrastructure using automation and software with AI engine delivered during days.”
On November 26, 2024, in a message considered by Wired, a person who uses the name of the screen, including the name of Anthony, and the same handle that Jancso uses on his account X, posted on the Discord server, related to the generation task AI Space Force – A “Eighte The combination of the AI Crash course and solving problems involved in what attracted 350 more participants ”, according to his website.
“Helping the state team in efficiency to find hard engineers,” the report said. “Send your github/linkedin @doge on X and your X -hand in DM, if you are interested or know anyone, who is, can help get into the pipeline.”
In early December, in another message considered by Wired, a person using the same direction placed in the chat group for Palateir graduates.
“Hello everyone,” the report said. “I help the Elon team find a technical talent for the government’s effectiveness department (DOGE) in the new administrator. This is a historical opportunity to build an effective government and reduce the federal budget by 1/3. If you are interested in playing a role in this mission, please contact in the next few days. ”