A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.
A young man with no government experience who has yet to even complete his undergraduate degree is working for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and has been tasked with using artificial intelligence to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.
Where are they finding these people? Why is everything in DOGE being led by the most inexperienced young people? Is it just because they’re ambitious, naïve and malleable?
i’d guess some amount of dunning-kruger… find people with too much experience and they’ll say “na that’s simplistic we can’t do it”… find people juuuust experienced enough to have done basic things and they won’t know just how complex things can get
this is a very typical thing in IT: juniors almost universally try to apply schemas to the world so everything fits in a database - they assume that people always have 3 names, that addresses are simple, that dealing with time zones is trivial… reality is far more complex than that; the universe doesn’t fit in neat little boxes
Where are they finding these people? Why is everything in DOGE being led by the most inexperienced young people? Is it just because they’re ambitious, naïve and malleable?
They’re choosing people who are in the Nazi group chat and also did an internship at one of Musk’s companies.
No senior folks because more senior people won’t break the law because their boss says so.
Patsys. Scapegoats. Tools.
i’d guess some amount of dunning-kruger… find people with too much experience and they’ll say “na that’s simplistic we can’t do it”… find people juuuust experienced enough to have done basic things and they won’t know just how complex things can get
this is a very typical thing in IT: juniors almost universally try to apply schemas to the world so everything fits in a database - they assume that people always have 3 names, that addresses are simple, that dealing with time zones is trivial… reality is far more complex than that; the universe doesn’t fit in neat little boxes