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One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge
Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE. I spoke to one of them in 2023, when his life looked very, very different.
“The American people will not stand for an unelected secret group to run rampant through the executive branch,” Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday. In late 2023, I spent an hour speaking to one of these newly crowned powerbrokers: Luke Farritor, a then-21-year-old “run-of-the-mill computer science major” at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln working on the Vesuvius Challenge. One day on the drive to work, he heard Friedman on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, describing the mystery of the Vesuvius scrolls: papyrus documents buried in 79 AD by the eruption of Mt.
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