Chat with the budget bill in five CLI commands with `llm` — mini-hackathon recap, part 2

By Christopher Carroll Smith · Originally published on Substack

At the July 5, 2025 Coders' Colaboratory mini-hackathon in Latham, NY. Developers had just one hour to find a cool use case for the `llm` command-line tool, created by Simon Willison.

At the July 5, 2025 Coders' Colaboratory mini-hackathon in Latham, NY. Developers had just one hour to find a cool use case for the `llm` command-line tool, created by Simon Willison. This video reviews the submissions. The winning project embedded the "Big Beautiful Bill" for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with semantic search.

`llm` website: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/

Writeup on the submissions: https://gist.github.com/chriscarrollsmith/87a41eb91fac52b7c57a51ec277bc2d5