A site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights).
Really pleased with how much time LLMs saved me. Followed a typical "Comparative Budget info is usually between page 14-40, please parse budget info out into this JSON structure", I eyeball review, tweak where issues, repeat to get raw data.
Then site was super, super quick to get setup and live (deployed via Cloud Run) (literally less than an hour). Then a couple hours over a few days to add content, restructure etc.
Still more of a rough draft, but this is absolutely 100% not something I'd have been able to do or remotely have considered doing without LLMs + past 1.5 years of improvements.
A site I put together while volunteering for my Vermont town, made heavy, heavy use of Claude Code (and occasional Gemini (both UI & Vertex for initial Annual Town Report summaries & highlights).
Really pleased with how much time LLMs saved me. Followed a typical "Comparative Budget info is usually between page 14-40, please parse budget info out into this JSON structure", I eyeball review, tweak where issues, repeat to get raw data.
Then site was super, super quick to get setup and live (deployed via Cloud Run) (literally less than an hour). Then a couple hours over a few days to add content, restructure etc.
Still more of a rough draft, but this is absolutely 100% not something I'd have been able to do or remotely have considered doing without LLMs + past 1.5 years of improvements.
N.B. Vermont State Statutes have unique rules about how municipalities pass budgets, theres an annual town hall day. See e.g. https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-02-28/vermont-... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting#Vermont