Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82 www.wired.com/story/doge-d... - ThreadSky

telliotter.bsky.social • 9 days ago

Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/

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jpl1.bsky.social•9 days ago

They need an adjustment

telliotter.bsky.social•9 days ago

Also when I reached out to one of the DOGE people involved, he wrote back saying, “Sorry, I'm not going to answer these, besides to say I'm unpaid. And a fan of your work!” It's more than most people working with DOGE have shared!

boombutton.bsky.social•9 days ago

He's not even getting paid?!

sugarcubedog.bsky.social•9 days ago

Some are.

boombutton.bsky.social•9 days ago

I know some are, but man. What a mark.

sugarcubedog.bsky.social•9 days ago

I do wonder what they’ve been promised. If not something they’re fools.

l1vy.bsky.social•9 days ago

Well, that part's already established!

jeffmcmahon.bsky.social•9 days ago

Volunteering to demolish the government for yuks.

toowoke2joke.on.computer•9 days ago

Tesla or SpaceX intern, more likely.

jeffmcmahon.bsky.social•9 days ago

I wish we could have seen the meeting where somebody said “okay, we need people with computer skills, who won’t be worried about going to jail, and if we don’t have to pay them, even better” and the answer was “the most divorced-from-reality early-20somethings who happen to be hanging around”

rsavir.bsky.social•9 days ago

No way this goes wrong. Related, I'm thinking up a movie script where AI rewrites software for some important function and all crazy breaks loose. It would be a Mad Mad Mad World sort of crazy with people running around screaming.

robert-e-630.bsky.social•9 days ago

We need to send these DOGE people to El Salvador

ce-jaxon.bsky.social•9 days ago

Same genius AI that crashes Tesla's? The brilliant AI that calculated the tariffs on a US military base & 2 penguin populated Islands?

alangottesman.bsky.social•9 days ago

Those systems have been worked on and upgraded for decades. The hubris of these children going in thinking they can "fix" it with AI within days or weeks is dangerous on MANY levels.

pierrette1789.bsky.social•9 days ago

If it’s the EHR system (VistA), its core is written in very powerful, but easily maimed, M (or MUMPS, if you’re old school).

There’s no way these kids understand what they are toying with. 😒

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

alangottesman.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thanks for sending this link, btw

alangottesman.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's so easy to make unanticipated changes in code without beta testing, or to change the security protocol if you don't know what you're doing.

shirleydunk.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh, god, these are the new script kiddies who don't know how to write real code without an AI, aren't they?

xtan.bsky.social•9 days ago

Vibecoding iraq vets into poverty.

lefwin.bsky.social•9 days ago

Whoever writes the algorithms decide how the code decides.

chiffonelle29.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fuck. FUCK

cjohnt.bsky.social•9 days ago

Am I alone in thinking that anyone who risks screwing up veterans' benefits is putting themselves in extreme personal danger? ...considering the type of work veterans are quite experienced in.

sugarcubedog.bsky.social•9 days ago

And that a lot are maga who are unbalanced.

a-climate-refugee.bsky.social•9 days ago

Another day ending in “y”, WHY or WTF?

mayflower2matters.bsky.social•9 days ago

Pew pew

marnanel.bsky.social•8 days ago

I see no way this could go right

channelyourwarrior.bsky.social•9 days ago

About time some angry vets show up and drags these a-holes traitors out the door.

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