It makes sense if ruining lives is good for the company, firing and layoffs that are /necessary/ are hard for anyone with empathy. They should be rewarded for doing that.
That’s very appealing, the problem is the prompts control the results to such a degree, the person composing the prompts are the executives and at that point, you have not done anything.
We tried it. DOGE was a complete failure of tech startup idiots asking models questions as if they were oracles and blindly trusting them to make subjective decisions about which Congressionally-created programs we should kill. Some of the tech were smart enough to realize how much damage they did and got out quickly.
There’s a trend of software people in particular thinking that their expertise applies outside of their domain, and then causing a mess. DOGE was probably the world’s most spectacular example of this in action.
USDS and Code For America were reasonable, level-headed, modest efforts at improving government for the people using tech experts. They tried to work within the existing orgs and within the existing authorities to improve services via tech projects.
DOGE only existed because voters were convinced to hate the faceless people who work in government instead of hating the rigid legal requirements and checkbox system that every government employee is forced to follow.
