One other supply advised WIRED that Candy has additionally been utilizing the software at different components of HUD. WIRED reviewed a duplicate of the output of the AI’s assessment of 1 HUD division, which options columns displaying textual content that the AI mannequin discovered to be needing an adjustment whereas additionally together with recommendations from the AI for alterations to be made, primarily proposing rewrites. The spreadsheet particulars what number of phrases might be eradicated from particular person laws and provides a share determine indicating how noncompliant the laws are. It isn’t clear how these percentages are calculated.
Candy didn’t reply to requests for remark relating to his work. In response to a request to make clear Candy’s position at HUD, a spokesperson for the company stated they don’t touch upon particular person personnel. The College of Chicago confirmed to WIRED that Candy is “on go away from the undergraduate school.”
It’s unclear how Candy was recruited to DOGE, however a public GitHub account signifies that he was engaged on this difficulty even earlier than he joined Musk’s demolition crew.
The “CLSweet” GitHub account, which WIRED has linked to Candy, created an utility that tracks and analyzes federal authorities laws “exhibiting how regulatory burden is distributed throughout authorities businesses.” The applying was final up to date in March 2025, weeks earlier than Candy joined HUD.
One HUD supply who heard about Candy’s potential position in revising the company’s laws stated the trouble was redundant as a result of the company was already “put by way of a multi-year multi-stakeholder meatgrinder earlier than any rule was ever created” due to the Administrative Process Act. (This regulation dictates the way in which businesses are allowed to ascertain laws, and permits for judicial oversight over all the things an company does.)
One other HUD supply stated Candy’s title appeared to make little sense. “A programmer and a quantitative knowledge analyst are two very various things,” they famous.
Candy has nearly no on-line footprint. One of many solely references to him on-line is a brief biography on the web site of East Edge Securities, an funding agency Candy based in 2023 with two different college students from the College of Chicago.
The biography is brief on particulars, however claims that Candy has labored up to now with a number of personal fairness companies, together with Pertento Companions, which relies in London, and Tenzing World Traders based mostly in San Francisco. He’s additionally listed as a board member of Paragon World Investments, which is a student-run hedge fund.
The biography additionally mentions that Candy “shall be becoming a member of Nexus Level Capital as a non-public fairness summer season analyst.” The corporate has headquarters in Hong Kong and Shanghai and describes itself as “an Asian personal fairness fund with a strategic give attention to management alternatives within the Higher China market.”
East Edge Securities, Pertento Companions, Tenzing World Traders, Paragon World Investments, and Nexus Level Capital didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The one different on-line account related to Candy seems to be a Substack account utilizing the identical username because the GitHub account. That account has not posted any content material and follows largely finance and market-related newsletters. It additionally follows Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and the e-newsletter of Marc Andreessen, the Silicon Valley billionaire investor and group chat fanatic who stated he spent numerous time advising Trump and his workforce after the election.
DOGE representatives have been at HUD since February, when WIRED reported that two of these staffers got application-level entry to a few of the most crucial and delicate methods contained in the company.
Earlier this month, consultant Maxine Waters, the highest Democrat on the Home Monetary Providers Committee, stated DOGE had “infiltrated our nation’s housing businesses, stealing funding Congress offered to communities, illegally terminating workers, together with in your districts, and accessing confidential knowledge about individuals dwelling in assisted housing, together with sexual assault survivors.”