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.
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
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